# Perplexity — Image Search

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-05T21:42:37+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#october-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16100-image-search
- Subject: Sonar
- Pricing: $2.50 per 1,000 invocations for successful calls; failed calls have zero tool cost

Perplexity introduced an image_search tool that searches the web for images and returns typed results with image and source-page URLs. Users can apply result limits and domain, format, and safe-search filters. Successful calls cost $2.50 per 1,000 invocations, while failed calls incur no tool cost.

## Evidence

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

> Usage reports successful calls at $2.50 per 1,000 invocations; failed calls have zero tool cost.

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