Perplexity Search

Use Perplexity Search when a workflow needs normalized web results from Perplexity’s standalone Search API. This is different from Sonar Web Search. Perplexity Search is a workflow step and cross-provider agent tool backed by POST /search. Sonar Web Search is native search available only to agents using Perplexity Sonar models.

Configuration

Option	Required	Description
Name	No	Label shown on the workflow canvas.
Search Query	Yes	Non-empty query. Use Insert Variable to include prior step output.
Number of results	No	Maximum results from 1 to 20. The default is 10.
Country	No	ISO country restriction. The default is United States; choose No country restriction to omit it.
Search context size	No	`Low`, `Medium`, or `High` extracted-content preset. The default is `High`. Select Custom token limits to omit the preset.
Maximum total tokens	No	Total extracted webpage-content limit from 1 to 1,000,000.
Maximum tokens per page	No	Per-result-page content limit from 1 to 1,000,000. Setting either token limit omits search context size.
Search languages	No	Up to 20 ISO 639-1 language codes selected from the searchable multi-select.
Updated after / before	No	Optional last-updated date range. The after date must be earlier than the before date.
Published after / before	No	Optional publication date range. The after date must be earlier than the before date. Dates are sent as `MM/DD/YYYY`.
Publication recency	No	Past `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, or `year`.
Credentials	No	Hosted uses Fetch Hive’s Perplexity connection. Personal requires an enabled Perplexity integration in the workspace.
When the step fails	No	Terminate the workflow or continue after an error.

The step supports parallelization. Each version keeps its own query, credential mode, and complete search-option set and performs a separate search call.

Output

The output is an array of normalized results. Each result can contain:

{
  "title": "Example result",
  "url": "https://example.com/result",
  "snippet": "A short result excerpt",
  "date": "2026-07-24",
  "last_updated": "2026-07-24"
}

Optional fields are omitted when Perplexity does not return them. An empty array is a successful, billable search and can be passed directly to an iterator:

{{perplexity_search.output}}

Billing and limits

Hosted calls use Perplexity’s fixed Search API request cost plus the standard platform markup. Personal calls use one platform task and your workspace integration. Each actual request consumes one provider-tool limit unit; validation failures do not. See also: Workflow step overview, Error Handling, and Perplexity Search for agents

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Getting Started

Prompts

Workflows

Hive Agents

Agents

Knowledge Bases

Experiments

Your Workspace

Monitoring

User Tracking

Resources

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