# Query Length restriction in Search API

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/query-length-restriction-in-search-api/1922>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** search-api\
**Created:** [October 9, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/query-length-restriction-in-search-api/1922 "2025-10-09T09:24:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![abinash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.perplexity.ai/abinash/32/1324_2.png) [@abinash](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/abinash)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/query-length-restriction-in-search-api/1922/1 "2025-10-09T09:24:39Z")

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want to know if there are any query length restrictions in the search API. Asking this because, i was trying the playground and i couldn’t give more than 256 chars