Perplexity
Perplexity AI is an answer engine that delivers accurate answers to complex questions using large language models with real-time web search capabilities.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Perplexity the way a machine reads it — 151 machine-readable artifacts across 12 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Perplexity scores 65.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Perplexity
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Perplexity. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 12
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Perplexity
What do you want to know?
Perplexity Async Chat Completions API
The Async Chat Completions API enables developers to submit long-running chat completion requests for background processing. Requests are queued and processed asynchronously, re...
Perplexity Search API
The Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain, language, country, and date recency controls, returning structured res...
Perplexity Responses API
The Responses API (Agentic Research API) provides access to third-party frontier models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI with integrated web search tools, ...
Perplexity Embeddings API
The Embeddings API generates high-quality text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval, offering both standard embeddings for independent texts and contextualized embedding...
Perplexity Agent API
The Agent API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for agent.
Perplexity Async API
The Async API from Perplexity — 2 operation(s) for async.
Perplexity Contextualizedembeddings API
The Contextualizedembeddings API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for contextualizedembeddings.
Perplexity Embeddings API
The Embeddings API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
Perplexity Models API
The Models API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for models.
Perplexity Search API
The Search API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for search.
Perplexity Sonar API
The Sonar API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for sonar.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Perplexity AI API
OPEN COLLECTIONGraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Perplexity GraphQL API
Perplexity AI is a conversational AI search engine. Their API provides access to online and offline AI models for answering questions with real-time search grounding, citation a...
GRAPHQLPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Perplexity Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Perplexity Finops
FINOPSFeatures 16
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Perplexity Streaming API (HTTP + Server-Sent Events)
AsyncAPI description of Perplexity's HTTP-based streaming surface. IMPORTANT TRANSPORT NOTE ------------------------ Perplexity does NOT expose a WebSocket (ws://, wss://) API. ...
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Perplexity API Rules
SPECTRALPerplexity API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 108
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Annotation
JSON SCHEMAApiChatCompletionsRequest
JSON SCHEMAApiPublicSearchResult
JSON SCHEMAApiSearchPage
JSON SCHEMAApiSearchRequest
JSON SCHEMAApiSearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAAsyncApiChatCompletionsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAsyncApiChatCompletionsResponse
JSON SCHEMAAsyncApiChatCompletionsResponseSummary
JSON SCHEMAAsyncProcessingStatus
JSON SCHEMAChatMessage
JSON SCHEMAChatMessage
JSON SCHEMAChatMessageContentFileChunk
JSON SCHEMAChatMessageContentImageChunk
JSON SCHEMAChatMessageContentPDFChunk
JSON SCHEMAChatMessageContentTextChunk
JSON SCHEMAChatMessageContentVideoChunk
JSON SCHEMAChatMessageRole
JSON SCHEMAChoice
JSON SCHEMACompletionResponse
JSON SCHEMACompletionResponseStatus
JSON SCHEMACompletionResponseType
JSON SCHEMAContentPart
JSON SCHEMAContentPartType
JSON SCHEMAContextualized Embedding Object
JSON SCHEMAContextualized Embeddings Request
JSON SCHEMAContextualized Embeddings Response
JSON SCHEMACost
JSON SCHEMACurrency
JSON SCHEMADate
JSON SCHEMADateFilters
JSON SCHEMAEmbedding Object
JSON SCHEMAEmbeddings Request
JSON SCHEMAEmbeddings Response
JSON SCHEMAEmbeddings Usage
JSON SCHEMAErrorInfo
JSON SCHEMAEventType
JSON SCHEMAExecutePythonStepDetails
JSON SCHEMAFetchUrlContentStepDetails
JSON SCHEMAFetchUrlQueriesEvent
JSON SCHEMAFetchUrlResultsEvent
JSON SCHEMAFetchUrlResultsOutputItem
JSON SCHEMAFetchUrlTool
JSON SCHEMAFinanceSearchStepDetails
JSON SCHEMAFinanceSearchTool
JSON SCHEMAFunctionCallInput
JSON SCHEMAFunctionCallOutputInput
JSON SCHEMAFunctionCallOutputItem
JSON SCHEMAFunctionTool
JSON SCHEMAHTTPValidationError
JSON SCHEMAImageResult
JSON SCHEMAInput
JSON SCHEMAInputContent
JSON SCHEMAInputContentPart
JSON SCHEMAInputItem
JSON SCHEMAInputMessage
JSON SCHEMAJSONSchema
JSON SCHEMAJSONSchemaFormat
JSON SCHEMAListAsyncApiChatCompletionsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListModelsResponse
JSON SCHEMAMessageOutputItem
JSON SCHEMAModel
JSON SCHEMAOutputItem
JSON SCHEMAOutputItemAddedEvent
JSON SCHEMAOutputItemDoneEvent
JSON SCHEMAReasoningConfig
JSON SCHEMAReasoningStartedEvent
JSON SCHEMAReasoningStep
JSON SCHEMAReasoningStoppedEvent
JSON SCHEMAResponseCompletedEvent
JSON SCHEMAResponseCreatedEvent
JSON SCHEMAResponseFailedEvent
JSON SCHEMAResponseFormat
JSON SCHEMAResponseFormatJSONSchema
JSON SCHEMAResponseFormatText
JSON SCHEMAResponseInProgressEvent
JSON SCHEMAResponsesCost
JSON SCHEMAResponsesObjectType
JSON SCHEMAResponsesRequest
JSON SCHEMAResponsesResponse
JSON SCHEMAResponseStreamEvent
JSON SCHEMAResponsesUsage
JSON SCHEMARoleType
JSON SCHEMASearchDomainFilter
JSON SCHEMASearchQueriesEvent
JSON SCHEMASearchRecencyFilter
JSON SCHEMASearchResult
JSON SCHEMASearchResultsEvent
JSON SCHEMASearchResultsOutputItem
JSON SCHEMASearchSource
JSON SCHEMAStatus
JSON SCHEMATextDeltaEvent
JSON SCHEMATextDoneEvent
JSON SCHEMATool
JSON SCHEMAToolCall
JSON SCHEMAToolCallDetails
JSON SCHEMAToolCallFunction
JSON SCHEMAToolUserLocation
JSON SCHEMAURL
JSON SCHEMAUrlContent
JSON SCHEMAUsageInfo
JSON SCHEMAUserLocation
JSON SCHEMAValidationError
JSON SCHEMAVideoURL
JSON SCHEMAWebSearchFilters
JSON SCHEMAWebSearchOptions
JSON SCHEMAWebSearchStepDetails
JSON SCHEMAWebSearchTool
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JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Perplexity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Perplexity — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 7
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 9
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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