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Perplexity via Locus MPP
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Compliance Checks
All paid ops declare 402 response
MUST
10pt
All x-payment-info valid
MUST
10pt
Challenge has Cache-Control: no-store
MUST
5pt
Challenge digest on POST
SHOULD
3pt
Challenge has expires
SHOULD
3pt
Challenge has Problem Details
SHOULD
2pt
Challenge has required params
MUST
5pt
Challenge has WWW-Authenticate
MUST
5pt
Challenge returns 402
MUST
10pt
Correct Content-Type
MUST
5pt
Has Cache-Control on discovery
SHOULD
5pt
Has input schemas
SHOULD
5pt
Has llms.txt
SHOULD
5pt
Has /openapi.json at root
MUST
10pt
Has required top-level fields
MUST
10pt
Served over HTTPS
MUST
10pt
Uses standard categories
SHOULD
2pt
1 issue
- POST endpoint challenge missing digest parameter (SHOULD per spec)
Paid Operations (4)
POST /perplexity/chat dynamic USDC.e
Sonar Chat
- Amount
- dynamic
- Currency
- USDC.e
- Method
- tempo
- Intent
- charge
- 402 Declared
- Yes
Input Schema
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| max_tokens | number | No | Maximum output tokens (up to 128000) |
| messages | array | Yes | Conversation messages. Each: { role: "system"|"user"|"assistant", content: "text" } or multimodal with image_url content blocks. |
| model | string | Yes | Sonar model ID: 'sonar', 'sonar-pro', 'sonar-reasoning-pro', 'sonar-deep-research' |
| reasoning_effort | string | No | Reasoning effort level (sonar-reasoning-pro only): 'minimal', 'low', 'medium', 'high' |
| response_format | string | No | Structured output. { type: "json_schema", json_schema: { name: "...", schema: {...} } } |
| return_images | boolean | No | Include image results in the response |
| return_related_questions | boolean | No | Include related follow-up questions in the response |
| search_domain_filter | string | No | Restrict search to specific domains |
| search_language_filter | string | No | Filter search results by language (ISO 639-1 codes) |
| search_recency_filter | string | No | Time filter for search results: 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year' |
| temperature | number | No | Sampling temperature (0.0–2.0) |
| top_p | number | No | Nucleus sampling threshold (0.0–1.0) |
| web_search_options | string | No | Web search configuration: { search_context_size: 'low'|'medium'|'high', search_type: 'fast'|'pro'|'auto', user_location: { country: '...', city: '...' } } |
POST /perplexity/search dynamic USDC.e
Web Search
- Amount
- dynamic
- Currency
- USDC.e
- Method
- tempo
- Intent
- charge
- 402 Declared
- Yes
Input Schema
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | No | Country code for result localization (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) |
| max_results | number | No | Maximum results to return (1–20, default 10) |
| query | string | Yes | Search query — a single string or array of queries |
| search_after_date_filter | string | No | Only results after this date (MM/DD/YYYY) |
| search_before_date_filter | string | No | Only results before this date (MM/DD/YYYY) |
| search_domain_filter | string | No | Restrict search to specific domains (max 20) |
| search_language_filter | string | No | Language filter (ISO 639-1 codes) |
| search_recency_filter | string | No | Time filter: 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year' |
POST /perplexity/embed dynamic USDC.e
Embeddings
- Amount
- dynamic
- Currency
- USDC.e
- Method
- tempo
- Intent
- charge
- 402 Declared
- Yes
Input Schema
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| input | string | Yes | Text to embed. Single string or array of strings. |
| model | string | Yes | Embedding model: 'pplx-embed-v1-0.6b' or 'pplx-embed-v1-4b' |
POST /perplexity/context-embed dynamic USDC.e
Contextualized Embeddings
- Amount
- dynamic
- Currency
- USDC.e
- Method
- tempo
- Intent
- charge
- 402 Declared
- Yes
Input Schema
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| chunks | string | Yes | Array of text chunks from the document to embed |
| document | string | Yes | The full parent document text providing shared context |
| model | string | Yes | Contextualized model: 'pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b' or 'pplx-embed-context-v1-4b' |
Payment Methods
- Methods
- tempo
- Intents
- charge
- Currencies (discovery)
- USDC.e
- Currency (challenge)
- USDC.e on Tempo (Tempo)
- Multiple Challenges
- No
Recipients
- 0x060b0fB0Be9d90557577B3AEE480711067149Ff0
Per-endpoint breakdown
- POST /perplexity/chat
- 0x060b0fB0Be9d90557577B3AEE480711067149Ff0
- POST /perplexity/embed
- 0x060b0fB0Be9d90557577B3AEE480711067149Ff0
- POST /perplexity/search
- 0x060b0fB0Be9d90557577B3AEE480711067149Ff0
Security
- TLS Version
- TLSv1.3
- Challenge ID Unique
- -
- Challenge ID Length
- -
- Digest Binding
- -
Uptime
- Discovery
- Reachable (608ms)
- Challenge
- Reachable (562ms)
- Last Checked
Schema Completeness
- Paid Operations
- 4
- With Input Schema
- 4
- With Description
- 4
Documentation
- Homepage
- https://perplexity.ai
- API Reference
- https://docs.perplexity.ai
- llms.txt
- https://beta.paywithlocus.com/mpp/perplexity.md reachable
Discovery
- OpenAPI URL
- https://perplexity.mpp.paywithlocus.com/openapi.json
- OpenAPI Version
- 3.1.0
- Service Version
- 1.0.0
- Document Size
- 5024 bytes
- Document Hash
- 8410d2a51a3d11752c77cdc3e56af1f060013013cd8959c2d1ef05fbd60139ff
Version History (2 snapshots)
Scan snapshots
| Date | Grade | Score | Response | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-06 | A | 95% | 651ms | Up |
| 2026-04-07 | A | 95% | 507ms | Up |