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Perplexity AI•July 20, 2026
Perplexity CLI
Free
CLI
Developer Tools
AI Search
Automation
### TL;DR
Perplexity CLI is a command-line interface tool that brings Perplexity's powerful search and content extraction capabilities directly into your terminal. Designed for developers and coding agents, it provides grounded web search results and clean page content, outputting data in JSON for seamless integration with automation workflows.
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Pricing
Free to install; requires a Perplexity API key
Cost structure
Version
0.2.2
Current release version
Hardware
macOS (Apple Silicon) or Linux (x86_64/arm64) environment
Compute requirements
Category
Free
Licensing model
Region
United States
Primary region
Key Features
- Grounded web search results delivered in machine-readable JSON
- Clean page content extraction with metadata and optional raw HTML
- Support for advanced search filters including domains, recency, and date ranges
- Optimized for integration with coding agents and terminal automation via pipeable outputs
- Cross-platform support for macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux
- Secure authentication and built-in self-updating binary capabilities
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