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Perplexity · Research & Search

POST /v1/search

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	-
Weight precision	-
Features	web_search, no_llm
Native inference	No
New	No
Supported endpoints	`POST /v1/search`

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	-	The natural-language search query.
`max_results`	number	no	`10`	Maximum number of results to return. · Range: 1 – 20
`max_tokens`	number	no	`1000000`	Maximum tokens extracted across all results. · Range: 1 – 1000000
`max_tokens_per_page`	number	no	`4096`	Max tokens extracted per individual result page. · Range: 1 – 16384
`multi_query_mode`	boolean	no	false	Let Perplexity expand the query into multiple parallel searches for broader coverage.
`search_domain_filter`	string	no	-	Comma-separated domains. Prefix with ’-’ to exclude. Max 20.
`search_language_filter`	string	no	-	Comma-separated ISO 639-1 codes (2 letters). Max 10.
`search_recency_filter`	enum	no	`"none"`	Relative time filter (hour \| day \| week \| month \| year). · Allowed: `none`, `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, `year`
`search_after_date_filter`	string	no	-	Use YYYY-MM-DD. Only include sources after this date.
`search_before_date_filter`	string	no	-	Use YYYY-MM-DD. Only include sources before this date.
`last_updated_after_filter`	string	no	-	Use YYYY-MM-DD. Only include sources after this date.
`last_updated_before_filter`	string	no	-	Use YYYY-MM-DD. Only include sources before this date.
`country`	string	no	-	Two-letter ISO 3166-1 code (US, GB, etc.) for biasing results to a country.
`display_server_time`	boolean	no	false	Include the server-time timestamp in the response payload.

Notes

Returns title/url/snippet only — no LLM-style answer. Up to 5 queries via newline-separated multi_query.

Machine-readable schema: GET https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/models/perplexity-search.