Perplexity AI API pricing
Perplexity AI has one ranked offering on Syftly. Prices below are per-unit list prices from dated public sources — token- or credit-priced plans are flagged, and a missing price is shown as missing, never guessed.
Perplexity Sonar / Search API · Web search
Web search price$5 per 1000 queries *
* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so it is excluded from cheapest-rankings.
Source: Perplexity pricing docs (docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing); AImultiple benchmark (updated 2026-08-17) 2026-08-20 · ranking updated 2026-08-20
Cheapest comparable web search alternative: Brave Search API (Data for AI) ($5 per 1000 queries) — compare them.
Full ranking: Web search