Perplexity

Computer is now available in Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Teams. Context and sources are now easier to see in Computer threads. Usage analytics are available for both individuals and teams.

Personal Computer is now available for everyone on Mac. Computer is also ready to use for all finance professionals.

Computer is now faster, more powerful, and more connected to your enterprise with improved models, Microsoft Teams, and skills in Spaces.

The finance_search tool is now available in the Agent API. Pull structured financial and market data — quotes, financials, earnings, analyst estimates, segment KPIs, ETF constituents, and more — for public companies and instruments. The model decides which fields to fetch based on your prompt.

Highlights:

• Quotes and pricing: Near-real-time prices, OHLCV ranges, pre-market and after-hours data
• Financials: Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow (quarterly and annual), key ratios
• Earnings: Last call transcript, filings, beat/miss history, guidance
• Coverage and market activity: Analyst estimates, top gainers/losers, ownership and corporate actions
• Recommended configurations: Presets for live quotes, single-company historical lookups, and multi-step cross-company research

Perplexity shipped Personal Computer on Mac. Updates include easier control of Computer and improved integration with personal context, including a prebuilt Personal CFO.

Agent API: New Third-Party Models — Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and Grok 4.20 Reasoning now supported.

API Key Management: Security Upgrade — Full token values now returned only at creation and cannot be retrieved again from the console or any endpoint. Always set a descriptive token_name.

New Integration: n8n — Native Perplexity node with full API coverage (Chat Completions, Agent, Search, Embeddings). Models load dynamically.

New Integration: OpenClaw — Open-source terminal AI agent now supports Perplexity Search API as a native web search provider.

API Credits via AWS Marketplace — Purchase API credits through your AWS account for consolidated billing.

/v1/models Endpoint — New GET /v1/models lists all available Agent API models in OpenAI-compatible format. No authentication required.

Shipped Comet iOS, Computer updates for individuals and enterprise, multimodal Deep Research, and Health Computer.

Shipped Perplexity Computer to all Pro users, Computer for Enterprise, Computer in Slack, and Comet Enterprise. Announced Personal Computer as a personal local version of Computer.

Agent API: New Third-Party Models — GPT-5.4, NVIDIA Nemotron, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview now supported.

Model Deprecations — google/gemini-2.5-flash deprecated March 20, 2026; google/gemini-2.5-pro and google/gemini-3-pro-preview deprecated April 1, 2026.

Agent API Endpoint /v1/agent — Canonical endpoint is now /v1/agent. The previous /v1/responses path continues to work as an alias for OpenAI compatibility.

The Agent API is now generally available. Build autonomous agents with production-ready guidance on model behavior, output controls, and OpenAI-compatibility patterns.

The Embeddings API is now generally available with guides for standard and contextualized embeddings, plus best practices for semantic search and retrieval workflows.

Model Deprecation: sonar-reasoning Removed — As of December 15, 2025, sonar-reasoning has been deprecated. Migrate to sonar-reasoning-pro.

New: Media Classifier — Automatically detects when queries would benefit from visual content and includes relevant images or videos. Available exclusively with sonar-pro. Configurable control to enable/disable and override media types.

Search API Enhancements:

• New max_tokens parameter: Control maximum tokens extracted per page
• last_updated_filter support: Filter results by when content was last updated
• Vercel AI SDK Support: Search API now compatible with the Vercel AI SDK

Community Showcase: Perplexity Client — Electron-based desktop application with advanced API parameter controls.

The Perplexity MCP Server now supports one-click installation for Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code. Provides four tools: perplexity_search, perplexity_ask, perplexity_research, and perplexity_reason.

Pro Search is now generally available for Sonar Pro. Enhances queries with automated tool usage and multi-step reasoning through intelligent tool orchestration.

Key capabilities:

• Multi-step reasoning: Automatic multiple web searches and URL content fetching
• Real-time thought streaming
• Automatic classification via search_type: "auto"
• Built-in tools: web_search and fetch_url_content

• language_preference: Specify preferred languages for search results (available for sonar and sonar-pro)
• search_domain_filter: Filter results to specific domains
• Date/time filters: Enhanced control over result freshness with publication and update filters

Official Perplexity SDKs for Python and TypeScript are now available.

Installation:

# Python
pip install perplexityai

# TypeScript
npm install @perplexity-ai/perplexity_ai

Features:

• Full type definitions for all request/response fields
• Support for Sonar and Search APIs
• Streaming support with async iterators
• Automatic environment variable handling for API keys

New interactive playground to test Search API queries and parameters in real time — no API key required to get started. Experiment with filtering options, see response structures, and refine queries before implementing in code.

Standalone Search API providing direct access to search results without LLM processing. Returns raw, ranked search results from Perplexity's continuously refreshed index.

Perfect for: building custom search experiences, integrating raw search results into applications, specialized workflows.

Key features:

• Direct access to Perplexity's search index
• All existing search filters and controls
• Faster responses (no LLM processing)
• Same filtering options (domain, date range, academic sources, etc.)

Upload and analyze documents in multiple formats using Sonar models. Supports PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, and RTF files.

Key capabilities:

• Document Analysis: Ask questions about document content
• Content Extraction: Pull out key information and insights
• Multi-format Support: PDF, Word, text, and Rich Text Format
• Large Document Handling and Multi-language Support

Upload via publicly accessible URLs using the file_url content type.

As of August 1, 2025, R1-1776 has been removed from the available models. Recommended replacement: Sonar Pro Reasoning.