# Perplexity — New: Router API

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-30T18:24:19+00:00
- Category: api-release
- Subject: Sonar
- Pricing: per-token pricing at each model's published rates, with no per-request fees
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#july-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/5065-new-router-api

Perplexity announced a Router API that provides unified access to open-weight models through a single endpoint with compatibility for OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, automatic health-based routing, and per-token pricing.

## Evidence

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

> Unified access to open-weight models hosted by Perplexity through a single endpoint — with your existing Perplexity API key.

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