API credit
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- Unit
- USD of prepaid API credit
- Definition
- The Perplexity API uses a credit-based billing system: "Credits are purchased in advance and used for API calls."
- Counting rules
- Credits are drawn down by token, tool and request charges across the Orchestrator, Agent, Search and Embeddings APIs; an account out of credits has its keys blocked. Credits bought through AWS Marketplace are denominated 1:1 with USD.
- Floors / minimums
- AWS Marketplace listing starts at USD 1,000 per one-month contract.
- Applies to products
- Perplexity API Platform
- Product category