Perplexity announces its new Search API so developers can access the same engine that answers questions in its public product. Why does this matter now? Because it makes it much easier for apps and AI agents to query the web at scale with structured, up-to-date answers.
What Perplexity announces
The company launched the Perplexity Search API, accompanied by an SDK, an open source evaluation framework, and a technical write-up from its research team. The API promises access to the same infrastructure that powers Perplexity’s public search, with an index covering hundreds of billions of web pages. (perplexity.ai)
What it offers for developers
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Structured answers ready to use in AI workflows and traditional apps. That cuts down on heavy preprocessing and speeds up integrations.
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Indexing at fine-grained units inside documents. Instead of returning whole documents, the API returns relevant, scored snippets, which improves the contextual relevance for models and agents. ()
