Perplexity cuts Agent API effort-level prices and adds an ultra level
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Aravind SrinivasOfficialPerplexity cuts Agent API effort-level prices and adds an ultra levelAIPerplexity says every Agent API effort level now costs less while keeping the same or higher research quality. It also adds a new ultra level for the most demanding, long-running requests.
Perplexity DevelopersOfficialPerplexity reports benchmark gains and lower costs across effort levelsAIPerplexity says its medium effort setting rose from 55% to 77% on BrowseComp and DSQA, with almost 90% lower costs. It reports xhigh held 76.5% on WANDR, its benchmark for long, multi-entity research, at 75% lower cost than August. The ultra setting posts the highest WANDR score at 85.9%.
- Perplexity DevelopersOfficialPerplexity cuts Agent API effort-level prices and adds an ultra level
AIPerplexity says every Agent API effort level now costs less while keeping the same or higher research quality. It also adds a new ultra level for the most demanding, long-running requests. Effort levels are bundled agent configurations optimized for specific tasks.
