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Perplexity

Every recorded change to 4 public pages. Faded entries are wording-only changes.

November 2026
  1. Nov 057 line(s) added, 1 removed (around "Web grounding").api-pricingpricing+7 −1raw difflive page
  2. Nov 051 line(s) added, 1 removed.rate-limitslimits+1 −1raw difflive page
October 2026
  1. Oct 28Clarified Search API pricing to confirm that costs are per successful request regardless of the number of queries or extracted text tokens.api-pricingpricing+13 −5raw difflive page
  2. Oct 2813 line(s) added, 5 removed (around "Agent API Research Effort Level").api-pricingpricing+13 −5raw difflive page
  3. Oct 21Added pplx-decider-v1.2 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 models, updated Agent API Research Preset costs to $0.0022, and added Embeddings API cost formula.api-pricingpricing+9 −12raw difflive page
  4. Oct 219 line(s) added, 12 removed (around "Search Context Size vs Context Window").api-pricingpricing+9 −12raw difflive page
  5. Oct 21Agent API now enforces separate QPS and token limits (TPM/TPH) per organization and model, with specific error types and retry behaviors.rate-limitslimits+57 −8raw difflive page
  6. Oct 2157 line(s) added, 8 removed (around "Orchestrator API Rate Limits").rate-limitslimits+57 −8raw difflive page
  7. Oct 13Reduced pplx-decider-v1-27b input token price to $0.02 per 1M tokens and lowered Fast Search costs from $0.0025 to $0.001.api-pricingpricing+8 −7raw difflive page
  8. Oct 138 line(s) added, 7 removed (around "Orchestrator API Pricing").api-pricingpricing+8 −7raw difflive page
  9. Oct 05Removed Sonar API rate limits and updated Agent API to use a shared organization-wide rolling one-second window instead of per-model RPM limits.rate-limitslimits+20 −121raw difflive page
  10. Oct 0520 line(s) added, 121 removed (around "Agent API Rolling Window").rate-limitslimits+20 −121raw difflive page
  11. Oct 04Removed Sonar API pricing, added Decisions API at $0.04 per 1M input tokens, and introduced a $1.00 Fast Search API option.api-pricingpricing+18 −51raw difflive page
  12. Oct 0418 line(s) added, 51 removed (around "Decisions API Pricing").api-pricingpricing+18 −51raw difflive page
September 2026
  1. Sep 30Added detailed terms regarding user content licenses, prohibited activities like scraping and reverse engineering, and requirements to cite the service when publishing output.terms+102 −113raw difflive page
  2. Sep 30102 line(s) added, 113 removed (around "Perplexity Terms of Service").terms+102 −113raw difflive page
August 2026
  1. Aug 31The Agent API now applies independent QPS and RPM limits, increasing Tier 4 to 4,000/min and Tier 5 to 8,000/min.rate-limitslimits+3 −3raw difflive page
  2. Aug 313 line(s) added, 3 removed.rate-limitslimits+3 −3raw difflive page
  3. Aug 31The fetch_url tool invocation price increased from $0.00025 to $0.0005 and Gateway API was renamed to Router API.api-pricingpricing+5 −5raw difflive page
  4. Aug 315 line(s) added, 5 removed (around "Router API Pricing").api-pricingpricing+5 −5raw difflive page
  5. Aug 17Minor: Renamed Gateway API Rate Limits to Router API Rate Limits.rate-limitslimits+2 −2raw difflive page
  6. Aug 172 line(s) added, 2 removed (around "Router API Rate Limits").rate-limitslimits+2 −2raw difflive page
  7. Aug 05The Search API now uses query units for rate limits, where multi-query requests consume one unit per query while remaining a single billable request.rate-limitslimits+11 −6raw difflive page
  8. Aug 0511 line(s) added, 6 removed (around "Gateway API Rate Limits").rate-limitslimits+11 −6raw difflive page
  9. Aug 04Reduced Agent API tool costs for web_search to $0.0025 and fetch_url to $0.00025 per invocation and added Gateway API pricing.api-pricingpricing+20 −52raw difflive page
  10. Aug 0420 line(s) added, 52 removed (around "Gateway API Pricing").api-pricingpricing+20 −52raw difflive page
July 2026
  1. Jul 15Added an Estimate your cost section to the API pricing page.api-pricingpricing+1 −0raw difflive page
  2. Jul 151 line(s) added, 0 removed (around "Estimate your cost").api-pricingpricing+1 −0raw difflive page
  3. Jul 06The Privacy Policy was updated to a Privacy Notice effective July 2, 2026, and restructured to detail specific data collection sources.privacy+130 −143raw difflive page
  4. Jul 06130 line(s) added, 143 removed (around "Perplexity Privacy Notice").privacy+130 −143raw difflive page
June 2026
  1. Jun 26Added Z.AI, Moonshot AI, and NVIDIA to the list of supported third-party model providers for the Agent API.api-pricingpricing+2 −2raw difflive page
  2. Jun 262 line(s) added, 2 removed.api-pricingpricing+2 −2raw difflive page
  3. Jun 18Removed links to AI agents documentation, Docs, Cookbook, and API Reference from the usage tiers page.rate-limitslimits+0 −4raw difflive page
  4. Jun 180 line(s) added, 4 removed.rate-limitslimits+0 −4raw difflive page
  5. Jun 14Added a sandbox tool to the Agent API priced at $0.03 per 20-minute session plus $0.005 per SDK search query.api-pricingpricing+2 −1raw difflive page
  6. Jun 142 line(s) added, 1 removed.api-pricingpricing+2 −1raw difflive page
May 2026
  1. May 28Minor: Removed links to the llms.txt documentation index, Docs, Cookbook, and API Reference from the pricing page.api-pricingpricing+0 −4raw difflive page
  2. May 280 line(s) added, 4 removed.api-pricingpricing+0 −4raw difflive page
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