API Roadmap

Upcoming features and improvements for the Perplexity API designed to enhance your development experience.

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Video Upload Capabilities

Multimodal video processing - August 2025

We’re expanding our multimodal capabilities to include video uploads, targeting availability by the end of August 2025.

This feature will enable:

• Video Content Analysis: Upload and analyze video files directly through the API
• Frame-by-Frame Processing: Extract insights from video content at multiple time points
• Visual Scene Understanding: Analyze visual elements, objects, and activities in video content
• Multimodal Search: Search for information based on both visual and audio elements from your uploaded videos

Supported formats will include common video file types (MP4, MOV, AVI) with reasonable file size limits for API efficiency.

This capability will unlock new use cases in content moderation, educational analysis, media research, and automated video summarization.

File Search & Connectors

Expanded data access

Expanding your ability to access and process information:

• Search across various file types
• Integration with external data sources
• Parity with enterprise connector capabilities

This feature will allow your applications to tap into a broader range of data sources for more comprehensive insights.

Expanded Structured Outputs Support

Enhanced response formatting

We’re expanding our structured outputs capabilities:

• Universal JSON Support: JSON structured outputs are now available for all models across all tiers
• Complete Regex Support: Extending regex pattern support to all models (currently available for sonar and sonar-reasoning)
• Advanced Schema Validation: Enhanced validation options for more reliable structured data
• Output Templates: Pre-defined templates for common use cases

This expansion will make it easier to build applications that require consistent, structured data from our API responses.

Documentation Overhaul

More comprehensive resources

We’re committed to making our documentation a truly exceptional resource:

• Improved Layout: Optimized structure for better self-serve workflows
• Consistent Design: Unified branding between our landing page and documentation
• Enhanced Content: Revised explanations for better developer understanding
• Vertical-Specific Guides: Specialized documentation for publishers, merchants, and other industry partners
• High-Fidelity Demos: More comprehensive examples beyond our basic cookbook demos
• Comprehensive Prompt Guide: In-depth resources to help you build effectively with our search + LLM API
• API Selection Guides: Clear guidance on which API is best suited for specific scenarios

These improvements will help you get up to speed faster and make the most of our API capabilities.

Increased Rate Limits

Support for high-volume applications

We’re scaling our infrastructure to support significantly higher request volumes:

• Working toward supporting use cases up to 100K RPM
• Designed for high-growth startups and enterprise applications

This enhancement will ensure our API can grow alongside your application’s user base and processing needs.

Better Error Handling

Clearer troubleshooting

Improving our error framework:

• More descriptive error messages
• Clearer guidance on resolving common issues

This will reduce debugging time and help you understand and address issues more efficiently.

Multimedia Capabilities

Beyond text processing

Broadening the types of content you can work with:

• URL Content Integration: Specify URLs within prompts to search for and analyze content from specific web pages directly
• URL Parsing: Extract and analyze content from web pages
• PDF/DOCX Uploads: Process and analyze PDF and DOCX documents directly via the API

These features will enable new use cases and richer interactions within your applications, allowing you to reference specific web content, upload documents for analysis, and build more comprehensive research workflows.

Search as its own API

Standalone search functionality

We’re working on exposing search results as a standalone API/product, separate from the end-to-end integration with the LLM.

This feature will allow developers to:

• Directly access search results without invoking the LLM.
• Build custom workflows and applications leveraging search capabilities independently.

This will provide greater flexibility for developers who only need search functionality.

Context Management / Memory

Improved context handling

We’re addressing the limitations of managing context in API calls by introducing new context management features.

Key improvements include:

• Efficient Context Storage: Avoid appending responses from previous API calls to new ones, reducing the risk of exceeding context windows.
• Session-Based Memory: Enable session-based memory to maintain context across multiple API calls without manual intervention.

These enhancements will make it easier to build applications that require persistent context without hitting technical limitations.

Timeline and Availability

This roadmap represents our current development priorities. Features will be released incrementally, with some becoming available in the coming months and others planned for later in the year.

We’ll announce new feature availability through our changelog and via email notifications to API users.