Perplexity Cuts Agent API Research Costs and Adds Ultra Effort
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Summary: Perplexity announced on November 5, 2026 that every Agent API effort level now costs less per query, and reported higher or unchanged research quality across the presets. Medium improved from 55% to 77% on BrowseComp and DSQA while its cost fell almost 90%, and a new ultra level
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Perplexity.