Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI search engine. For developers, the Sonar API provides grounded, cited answers for building search-enabled apps.

When to Use

• Real-time Info: "What is the stock price of Apple?" (LLMs can't answer this without tools).
• Research Apps: Building an app that needs to cite sources.
• Citations: You need reliability and links to original data.

Core Concepts

Sonar API

API access to Perplexity's online models (llama-3-sonar-large-32k-online).

Citations

API returns a list of citations used to generate the answer.