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Perplexity API
LLM API with real-time web search grounding built in
App Infrastructure
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Perplexity's API provides access to their hosted LLMs with built-in web search retrieval, returning answers grounded in real-time information with citations. Ideal for applications that need up-to-date facts without building a separate retrieval pipeline.
Choose Perplexity API when…
- •need real-time web search grounding without RAG infrastructure
- •building research or Q&A tools with up-to-date answers
- •want cited, fact-checked responses out of the box
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LLM providers and inference servers — where the actual model computation happens
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