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perplexity.ask
Ask Perplexity: pay per use, no API key
Use Perplexity from Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other agents through one OpenTooler balance.
Answer a question with Perplexity's fast, web-grounded Agent API preset and source citations.
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.03
- Pricing model
- Fixed price per successful call
- Execution class
- fast
Limits
No additional limits are published for this tool.
Run this tool
Give your agent the setup instruction once, then use the example command with your own input.
Set up OpenTooler by following https://opentooler.ai/SKILL.md
opentooler tools call perplexity.ask --input '{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"What is OpenTooler?"}],"search_context_size":"low"}' --jsonSafety notes
- Side Effect
- read_only
- Public Sources Only
- Yes
- Open World
- Yes
How this compares to using Perplexity directly
You do not need a separate Perplexity account or subscription for this call. OpenTooler uses one prepaid balance across all tools and shows the per-call price before you run the command.
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