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Perplexity

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Perplexity is an reliable search provider offering Chat Completion, AI-Powered Search through Aweb's unified API. It features full streaming support with standard-tier latency.

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Specifications

CategorySearch
Auth Typeapi_key
Latency Tierstandard
Streamingfull
Pricing Tierstandard
Reliabilitypremium
Qualitypremium
Base URLhttps://api.perplexity.ai
SDK Package

Capabilities (2)

Chat Completionllm.chat
Score: 80
AI-Powered Searchsearch.ai-powered
Score: 98DEFAULT

Quick start

Use Perplexity through Alfred's unified API — no provider-specific SDK needed.

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.alfred-ai.app/v1/execute \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ALFRED_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "provider": "perplexity",
    "capability": "llm.chat",
    "input": { "prompt": "Hello from Perplexity!" }
  }'

TypeScript

import { Alfred } from '@alfred/core';

const alfred = new Alfred({ apiKey: process.env.ALFRED_API_KEY });

const result = await alfred.execute({
  provider: 'perplexity',
  capability: 'llm.chat',
  input: { prompt: 'Hello from Perplexity!' },
});

console.log(result.output);

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