Perplexity API
LLM with live web search built in
paidPay per token
Perplexity API (Sonar) gives LLM answers grounded in real-time web search results, with citations. Great for up-to-date answers and research use cases.
Pros
- Built-in real-time web search
- Citations with every answer
- Always up-to-date information
- No need for your own scraper
Cons
- No vision / function calling
- More expensive than raw LLM APIs
- Less control over grounding data