# Perplexity — Low, medium, and high presets use Fast Search

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-05T17:15:02+00:00
- Category: pricing-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#october-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16073-low-medium-and-high-presets-use-fast-search
- Subject: Sonar
- Pricing: web_search calls made under these presets drop from $2.50 to $1.00 per 1,000 invocations

Perplexity changed the low, medium, and high presets of the Agent API to use Fast Search instead of standard web search, reducing the price of web_search calls under those presets from $2.50 to $1.00 per 1,000 invocations and making search about 800 ms faster. The xhigh preset remains unchanged.

## Evidence

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

> web_search calls made under these presets drop from $2.50 to $1.00 per 1,000 invocations, and search is about 800 ms faster.

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