Perplexity Agent API adds Batch API with up to 50k requests per file

What happened

Aravind Srinivas announced that the Batch API is live on the Perplexity Agent API, supporting up to 50k requests per file. Each request runs the full agent loop with web_search and fetch_url support in batch mode for data enrichment workloads at scale. The quoted @perplexitydevs post describes uploading a JSONL file, creating a batch, and downloading results when it finishes

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The story so far

Perplexity has launched a Batch API on its Agent API, allowing users to submit up to 50,000 requests per file, Aravind Srinivas announced. Each request runs the full agent loop, with support for web_search and fetch_url in batch mode for large-scale data enrichment workloads. The workflow described by @perplexitydevs is to upload a JSONL file, create a batch, and download the results when processing finishes.