Perplexity's Agent API fetch_url tool price doubles back to $0.0005
Perplexity's Agent API fetch_url tool price reverted to $0.0005 per invocation, undoing the halving to $0.00025 that took effect on 2026-07-29 — confirmed by the docs' own worked cost example, whose total rose from $0.00675 to $0.007.
fetch_url billed at $0.00025 per invocation (in effect since the 2026-07-29 halving from its original $0.0005 rate).
fetch_url billed at $0.0005 per invocation — back to its pre-2026-07-29 level. web_search ($0.0025), people_search/finance_search ($0.005), and the $0.03 sandbox per-session fee are unchanged.
Perplexity’s Agent API tool pricing moved for the second time in three weeks. On 2026-07-29 the docs halved both web_search (to $0.0025) and fetch_url (to $0.00025). As of 2026-08-14, fetch_url is back at $0.0005 — exactly its original rate before that cut — while web_search stayed at $0.0025.
The reversal is confirmed independently of the rate-table row itself: the docs’ worked “Agent API Research Preset” cost example (2,000 input + 1,000 output tokens, 1 web_search call, 1 fetch_url call) totaled $0.00675 on 2026-08-11 and now totals $0.007 — a difference that only reconciles if fetch_url moved from $0.00025 back to $0.0005. No other Agent API tool, and no Sonar, Search API, Gateway, or Embeddings rate, changed alongside this.
Perplexity's Agent API `fetch_url` tool price doubled back to $0.0005 per invocation, undoing the halving to $0.00025 that took effect on 2026-07-29. Confirmed by two independent worked cost examples on the docs page: the "Agent API Research Preset" total is $0.007 on 2026-08-14 versus $0.00675 on 2026-08-11 — a difference that only reconciles if fetch_url returned to $0.0005. `web_search` ($0.0025), `people_search`/`finance_search` ($0.005), and the $0.03 `sandbox` per-session fee are all unchanged, as are Sonar, Search API, Gateway, and Embeddings rates.