Perplexity-Search | EmpirioLabs AI Docs

Provider: Perplexity
Category: Research & Search
Endpoint: POST /v1/search
Context window: —
Served from: —

Real-time web search with filtering by domain, language, date, and more. Returns search results, not LLM responses; no file uploads.

At a glance

Field	Value
Model id	`perplexity-search`
Input modalities	text
Output modalities	text
Context window	—
Region	—
Features	web_search, no_llm
New	No
Native inference	No

Pricing

Charge	Spec	Rate
Search Request	per request	$0.0060

Example request

$ curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/search \
>   -H 'Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY' \
>   -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
>   -d '{"model": "perplexity-search", "query": "latest LLM benchmarks 2026"}'

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`query`	string	yes	—	Search query. With multi_query_mode=true, use newline-separated queries (max 5).
`multi_query_mode`	boolean	no	false	Submit up to 5 queries in one call (multi-query batching).
`max_results`	number	no	`10`	Max sources to return per query. · Range: 1 – 20
`max_tokens_per_page`	enum	no	`"4096"`	Tokens per source page snippet. · Allowed: `256`, `512`, `1024`, `2048`, `4096`, `8192`
`max_tokens`	enum	no	`"1000000"`	Total token budget across all results. · Allowed: `10000`, `50000`, `100000`, `500000`, `1000000`
`search_recency_filter`	enum	no	`"none"`	Restrict to results from the last N. Use ‘none’ to disable. · Allowed: `none`, `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, `year`
`search_after_date_filter`	string	no	—	Publication date filter (MM/DD/YYYY).
`search_before_date_filter`	string	no	—	Publication date filter (MM/DD/YYYY).
`last_updated_after_filter`	string	no	—	Last-modified filter (MM/DD/YYYY).
`last_updated_before_filter`	string	no	—	Last-modified filter (MM/DD/YYYY).
`search_language_filter`	string	no	—	Comma-separated ISO-639-1 language codes (max 10).
`search_domain_filter`	string	no	—	Comma-separated allowlist. Prefix with - to deny.
`country`	string	no	—	ISO alpha-2 country.
`display_server_time`	boolean	no	false	Include the server timestamp in the response.
`disable_formatting`	boolean	no	false	Return raw upstream response.

Live machine-readable schema is also available at GET https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/models/perplexity-search.