From the source
Summary by forck
Perplexity has switched the low, medium, high and xhigh presets of its Agent API to Fast Search for web_search, matching the fast preset.
- The change cuts the price of web_search calls made under those presets from $2.50 to $1.00 per 1,000 invocations, and Perplexity says search is about 800 ms faster.
- Models, prompts, tool budgets and step limits are unchanged.
- Developers who want to keep standard web search under any preset can set search_type: "web" on the web_search tool.
