Perplexity Updates

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This Week

Perplexitymodel

Link·Oct 7, 2026

pplx-embed-v2-late

For developers building search: two Perplexity models that find matching text and images, including PDF pages, without converting them to text first.

Best for: Building internal search over long or visual documents like slide decks, reports, and scanned PDFs.
When to use it: Your current search misses details in long or image-heavy files because it boils each document down to one summary.
Who benefits: Developers and data teams building retrieval or knowledge-base tools for their company.

Perplexitymodel

Link·Oct 6, 2026

pplx-decider v1.1

Perplexity's updated open model for picking the right label or route for a request, at half the price of v1, for developers using the Decisions API.

Best for: Sorting incoming requests or messages into fixed categories, like sending a ticket to billing, support, or sales.
When to use it: You classify inputs with a general chat model today and want a cheaper model built only for that choice.
Who benefits: Developers building triage, routing, or tagging into support and ops workflows.

Last Week

Perplexityapi

Link·Oct 1, 2026

Perplexity Decisions API

An API that answers yes/no, multiple-choice, and scoring questions with probabilities instead of written text, for developers building on Perplexity.

Best for: Sorting, routing, and grading content automatically, like tagging inbound leads or checking copy against a rubric
When to use it: You need a confident yes, no, or category for every item and don't want to parse a written answer
Who benefits: Marketing ops teams and developers automating classification at volume

Perplexityfeature

Link·Oct 1, 2026

Interactive Charts in Perplexity Computer

Small update. Perplexity Computer now draws interactive charts inside the conversation, for Perplexity Computer users.

Best for: Seeing trends in the data Computer pulls up without exporting it to a spreadsheet
When to use it: You ask Computer for numbers over time, like stock moves or performance data, and want the shape at a glance
Who benefits: Analysts and marketers who pull market or performance data through Perplexity

Perplexityfeature

Link·Sep 29, 2026

Automations in Perplexity Computer

Standing agents in Perplexity Computer that run on a schedule or when something happens in Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear, or GitHub, and remember what earlier runs found.

Best for: Recurring reports and follow-ups that should build on last time, like a weekly competitor-pricing comparison or reply drafts for a key account.
When to use it: You keep re-explaining the same recurring task to an agent, or you want an alert when an expected update never shows up.
Who benefits: Marketing and ops leads who own status updates, competitive tracking, or inbox triage.

Perplexityapi

Link·Sep 28, 2026

Reusable Agent Profiles in the Perplexity Agent API

For developers on the Perplexity Agent API: save an agent's full setup once and reuse it across apps, with shared Skills and managed app connections.

Best for: Running the same agent workflow, with the same instructions and tool access, from several internal apps and automations.
When to use it: Your team keeps copying agent instructions and credentials into each app and needs one version to update.
Who benefits: Platform and operations developers building internal agents that a whole project team reuses.

September 2026

Perplexityapi

Link·Sep 24, 2026

Perplexity Fast Search

A cheaper, faster mode of the Perplexity Search API for developers whose agents make lots of web searches.

Best for: Agents and apps that run many web searches per task, where speed and cost matter more than full-page extraction.
When to use it: Search calls are slowing an agent down or driving up what each task costs.
Who benefits: Developers building research or automation agents on the Perplexity API.

Perplexityfeature

Link·Sep 21, 2026

Video Generation in Perplexity Computer

Perplexity Computer can now make finished video clips using MiniMax H3 and ByteDance Seedance 2.5, for Pro and Max subscribers.

Best for: Producing a campaign clip, product demo, or social video in the same thread as the copy and images that go with it.
When to use it: You need a short finished video alongside other launch assets and don't want to jump to a separate video tool.
Who benefits: Social and content marketers producing campaign assets on a small team.

Perplexityfeature

Link·Sep 17, 2026

Effort Controls in Perplexity Computer

Presets in Computer's model selector that set how hard it works on a task, on the web now with mobile and desktop to follow.

Best for: Spending more compute on a task that deserves it and less on a quick one.
When to use it: The default depth is either overkill for a simple lookup or too shallow for involved research.
Who benefits: Perplexity Computer users on the web who run a mix of quick and heavy tasks.

Perplexityfeature

Link·Sep 14, 2026

Perplexity Portable Computer on Windows

Perplexity's local AI agent now runs on Windows PCs with high-end NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, for users who want private, on-device work.

Best for: Analyzing sensitive files and handling recurring tasks without sending the data to the cloud.
When to use it: The work involves confidential data, or you want to avoid spending Perplexity Computer credits.
Who benefits: Analysts and power users with a high-end gaming or workstation Windows PC.