Perplexity takes all three top spots in Artificial Analysis' search API test

Its medium setting scored 80 at about $0.091 per task, beating rivals while landing in the middle of the latency table.

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AI agents increasingly depend on search providers as infrastructure. Perplexity's sweep shows that retrieval quality can change agent accuracy sharply, while medium context can outperform larger payloads at the same request price.

Perplexity takes all three top spots in Artificial Analysis' search API test — Its medium setting scored 80 at about $0.091 per task, beating rivals while landing in the middle of the latency table.

Perplexity took first, second and third place in the Artificial Analysis Search Index, giving its Search API the strongest quality scores in a controlled test of the retrieval systems feeding web data to AI agents.…

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