# Possible to return more than 5 sources in Perplexity API?

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/possible-to-return-more-than-5-sources-in-perplexity-api/680>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 19, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/possible-to-return-more-than-5-sources-in-perplexity-api/680 "2025-07-19T12:52:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![supersimon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.perplexity.ai/supersimon/32/406_2.png) [@supersimon](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/supersimon)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/possible-to-return-more-than-5-sources-in-perplexity-api/680/1 "2025-07-19T12:52:17Z")

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I am new to Perplexity AI and really impressed. I am implementing it on my personal website to help me find news sites from across the web that are reporting on a particular story.

When I run the cURL command, it only ever returns a maximum of 5 sources/citations. Is it possible to have more than this?

Not sure if it’s relevant but I’m a Pro member and Tier Usage level 1.

Thank you for any help or steer.

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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/possible-to-return-more-than-5-sources-in-perplexity-api/680/2 "2025-08-07T03:06:42Z")

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Hi! Unfortunately, we don’t offer more than 5 at this time!