Perplexity Pro Search API Pricing

Perplexity Pro Search pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What Perplexity Pro Search costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

Perplexity Pro Search cost calculator

At EmpirioLabs AI's price ($7.80 input, $39.00 output per 1M tokens), 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each cost $273 a day, about $8,190 a month. Change the numbers for your workload, or compare it with other models.

Perplexity Pro Search features

Input: text, image. Output: text.

• Image input
• Reasoning
• Web search

Use Perplexity Pro Search with LiteLLM

Call Perplexity Pro Search through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="empiriolabs/perplexity-pro-search",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: perplexity-pro-search
    litellm_params:
      model: empiriolabs/perplexity-pro-search
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LITELLM_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity-pro-search",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Perplexity Pro Search FAQ