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Perplexity Search

by Vaaya in Search & web

x402 APIPassing, checked 14 min ago

Perplexity — web search over Perplexity's own retrieval index, the one behind its answer engine, returning ranked results with snippets plus `date` and `last_updated` per hit. Pass `query`; optional `max_results` (1-10), `search_recency_filter` (hour|day|week|month|year), `country` (ISO-2), `max_tokens_per_page` (trim the excerpt), `search_domain_filter` (array of domains to include, or `-domain.com` to exclude). The freshness signal is the differentiator — results carry when the page was last …

POST
https://vaaya.ai/api/run/perplexity/search
Price
$0.01
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
276 ms
462 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
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How to call it

POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/perplexity/search

Each call costs $0.01 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/perplexity/search
content-type: application/json

{
  "max_results": 5,
  "query": "x402 payment protocol"
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
countrystringNo
max_resultsintegerNo
max_tokens_per_pageintegerNo
querystringYes
search_domain_filterarray of stringNo
search_recency_filterstringNo One of: hour, day, week, month, year.

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "charged_cents": 1,
  "data": {},
  "ok": true
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.01.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://vaaya.ai/api/run/perplexity/search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"max_results":5,"query":"x402 payment protocol"}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://vaaya.ai/api/run/perplexity/search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"max_results":5,"query":"x402 payment protocol"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvaaya.ai%2Fapi%2Frun%2Fperplexity%2Fsearch&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://vaaya.ai/api/run/perplexity/search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "max_results": 5,
    "query": "x402 payment protocol"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://vaaya.ai/api/run/perplexity/search",
        json={
            "max_results": 5,
            "query": "x402 payment protocol",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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