Tool invocation
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- Unit
- Invocation (sandbox: session of up to 20 minutes)
- Definition
- Agent API tools are billed per invocation: web_search, fast web_search, image_search, fetch_url, people_search, finance_search; sandbox per session.
- Counting rules
- Most tools are per invocation; sandbox is billed per container session (a 20-minute billing window, not a runtime cap) plus SDK searches from inside it.
- Applies to products
- Perplexity Agent API
- Product category