# Introducing Fast Search in the Perplexity Search API

**URL:** https://community.perplexity.ai/t/introducing-fast-search-in-the-perplexity-search-api/6195
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** search-api, api
**Created:** [September 24, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/introducing-fast-search-in-the-perplexity-search-api/6195 "2026-09-24T18:43:16Z")
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### Author: ![pplx-announcements](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@pplx-announcements](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/pplx-announcements)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/introducing-fast-search-in-the-perplexity-search-api/6195/1 "2026-09-24T18:43:16Z")

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Fast Search runs on Photon, our new Rust-based retrieval and ranking service that we built with a small team of engineers and hundreds of agents.

It returns 95% of search results in 230 ms or less.

How we built Photon: [https://perplexity.ai/hub/blog/photon](https://perplexity.ai/hub/blog/photon)  
Get started with Fast Search: [https://pplx.ai/fast-search-api-fm](https://pplx.ai/fast-search-api-fm)

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