# Perplexity — Fast Search

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-24T17:09:31+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/13737-fast-search
- Subject: Sonar
- Pricing: Fast Search costs $1.00 per 1,000 Search API requests or web_search invocations, with model tokens billed separately for Agent API.

Perplexity introduced a lower-latency search mode called Fast Search for its Search API and Agent API web_search tool, priced at $1.00 per 1,000 requests or invocations, with model tokens billed separately for Agent API.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026:

> Fast Search costs $1.00 per 1,000 Search API requests or web_search invocations, with model tokens billed separately for Agent API.

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