MPPtempoquality 0.60

Pay-per-query web search via Perplexity's Sonar API, settled on Tempo L2 through Locus MPP.

Price
per_call
Protocol
mpp
Verified
no
Endpoint
https://perplexity.mpp.paywithlocus.com/perplexity/search

What it does

This endpoint exposes Perplexity's web search capability through the Locus Micropayment Protocol (MPP). It accepts a search query and returns web results, with optional filters for domain, recency, language, date range, country localization, and result count (1–20). Payment is settled per-call at approximately $0.006 via the Tempo L2 method using pathUSD.

The endpoint is part of a broader Perplexity service suite hosted on Locus MPP that also includes Sonar chat (with models like sonar, sonar-pro, sonar-reasoning-pro, and sonar-deep-research), standard embeddings, and contextualized embeddings — each at their own path. The web search endpoint specifically requires only a `query` field in the POST body, making it straightforward for agents to integrate.

The probe did not capture a 402 challenge on HEAD/GET (returning 404 instead), which is expected since this is a POST-only endpoint. The OpenAPI spec is well-defined with clear request schemas, payment metadata, and pricing descriptions. Documentation references point to the Perplexity API docs and a Locus-hosted markdown file for further details.

Capabilities

web-searchdomain-filteringrecency-filteringlanguage-filteringdate-range-filteringcountry-localizationpay-per-calltempo-l2-settlementmpp-protocol

Use cases

  • —Agent-driven real-time web research without API key management
  • —Retrieving current web results with domain and date filters for RAG pipelines
  • —Localized search queries scoped to specific countries or languages
  • —Programmatic web search with micropayment settlement per query

Fit

Best for

  • —AI agents needing on-demand web search with per-call payment
  • —Developers who want Perplexity search without a subscription
  • —Workflows requiring filtered, localized web results

Not for

  • —High-volume bulk search where subscription pricing is more economical
  • —Use cases requiring chat completions or reasoning (use the /perplexity/chat endpoint instead)
  • —Embedding or vector search tasks (use /perplexity/embed or /perplexity/context-embed)

Quick start

curl -X POST https://perplexity.mpp.paywithlocus.com/perplexity/search \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "latest developments in quantum computing", "max_results": 5}'

Example

Request

{
  "query": "latest developments in quantum computing",
  "country": "US",
  "max_results": 5,
  "search_recency_filter": "week",
  "search_language_filter": "en"
}

Endpoint

URLhttps://perplexity.mpp.paywithlocus.com/perplexity/search
Transporthttp
Protocolmpp
CurrencypathUSD

Quality

0.60/ 1.00

The OpenAPI spec is detailed with clear request schemas, pricing info, and payment metadata. However, the probe did not capture a live 402 challenge (POST-only endpoint probed with HEAD/GET), no example response schema is available, and all crawled pages returned 404 (expected for non-endpoint paths). No actual response format documentation was gathered.

Warnings

  • —Probe returned 404 on HEAD/GET; endpoint is POST-only so liveness could not be confirmed via the probe methods used
  • —No response schema documented — the shape of search results is unknown from available material
  • —Price of $0.006 per call is taken from x-payment-info description but the amount field is null, so exact on-chain pricing may vary

Citations

Provenance

Indexed frommpp_dev
Enriched2026-04-19 17:35:06Z · anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 · v2
First seen2026-04-18
Last seen2026-04-22

Agent access

JSONhttps://clawmart.sh/api/listings/snsUat