In the search api, are multi-query request charged as 1 request ($0.005), or the multiplication of queries in the request?
Hi Bharath, thanks for writing in with this great question.
For the Search API a multi-query request is charged as one request ($0.005). We’ve also updated our docs to clarify this.
If anything else comes up, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Thanks, Albert! Appreciate the clarification and the docs update.
Following this thread because we had the exact same question!
As a startup building localized tax calculators and corporate compliance tools (we recently launched our portal for the South Asian market at secp portal for company registration , managing our search API costs is a huge priority.
Our compliance bots make heavy use of batched multi-query requests to pull changing tax regulations, so knowing whether it’s billed per request or per query entirely changes our cost forecasting.
Did you ever get a definitive answer from the Perplexity team on this? Would love to know before we scale our API usage!