# Perplexity AI API
> Search the web and generate grounded Perplexity Sonar responses with citations, search results, related questions, structured JSON, async jobs, and multimodal inputs including text, images, files, PDFs, and video URLs.

## Agent Summary
- FQN: `paysponge/perplexity`
- Category: ai_ml
- Operator: paysponge
- Origin: paysponge
- Version: 
- Endpoints: 6
- Pricing: $0.01
- HTML page: https://pay.sh/services/paysponge/perplexity
- Markdown page: https://pay.sh/services/paysponge/perplexity/index.md

## Service URLs
- Gateway: https://pplx.x402.paysponge.com
- Source: solana-foundation/pay-skills
- Source path: providers/paysponge/perplexity/PAY.md
- Source skill: pay-skills

## Use Case
Use for cited web answers, live research, grounded chat, web search snippets, model discovery, structured JSON generation, async deep-research workflows, multimodal question answering, and agent responses that rely on current sources.

## Endpoint Table
| Method | Path | Pricing | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| POST | search | $0.01/requests | Search the Web |
| POST | v1/agent | $0.01/requests | Create Agent Response |
| POST | v1/async/sonar | $0.01/requests | Create Async Chat Completion |
| GET | v1/async/sonar/{api_request} | free | Get Async Chat Completion |
| GET | v1/models | free | List Models |
| POST | v1/sonar | free | Create Chat Completion |