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Perplexity is an AI search platform that returns concise answers grounded in live web data and backed by sources. It’s designed for apps that need fresh, trustworthy information, rather than static or training-only knowledge. With Perplexity, your app can:
  • Answer questions using up-to-date information from the web
  • Generate summaries with clear, verifiable citations
  • Compare companies, products, or markets in real time
  • Reduce hours of manual research into seconds
Perplexity is a good fit when your app depends on recent, source-backed information such as news, research, market intelligence, or fact verification.

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Common use cases and example apps

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How to connect Perplexity

Workspace admins and owners can connect Perplexity. You can create multiple Perplexity connections using different API keys, which is useful for separating environments (for example, development and production) or managing rate limits. When the connection is created, Perplexity becomes available across all projects in the workspace.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting Perplexity, make sure you have:
  • A Perplexity account with admin permissions for billing and API key management
  • A Perplexity API key
  • Lovable workspace owner or admin role
You must have an active Perplexity account with API access. All search and answer requests performed through this connector consume your Perplexity API usage, and billing is handled directly by Perplexity, not Lovable.

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Step 1: Create a Perplexity account and API key

An API key lets you connect to Perplexity API and use its features. You can create multiple API keys in Perplexity. To create a Perplexity API key:
  1. Go to Perplexity and set up your account.
  2. Go to Account (profile icon) → API.
  3. Go to API group to set up your organization. Fill out your organization’s name, address, and tax details.
  4. Go to API billing and click Add Payment Method to enter your credit card information.
  5. Go to API key and click Create key. Give your key a descriptive name, for example, Lovable integration.
  6. Copy the generated API key and store it securely.
    Your API key functions like a password. Keep it secure and never share it publicly. You’ll need it in the next step.
See Perplexity docs for detailed instructions: API Groups & Billing.

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Step 2: Connect Perplexity to Lovable

You can create multiple connections using different API keys. To connect Perplexity:
  1. Open Connectors → App connectors and select Perplexity.
  2. Click Add connection.
  3. Display name: name the connection, for example Perplexity Prod.
  4. Under Authentication, enter your Perplexity API key (pplx-xxxx…).
  5. Click Create.
When connected, your Lovable apps can start using Perplexity to retrieve real-time, cited information. Editors and above can remove specific projects from a connection without deleting the connection entirely. The connection will remain available for other projects. To unlink projects:
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Open Connectors

Open Connectors, then go to App connectors, and select .
2

Open the connection

Open the connection you want to manage.
3

Select projects

Under Linked projects, check the projects you want to unlink.
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Confirm

Click Unlink projects and confirm.
When unlinked, those projects will no longer have access to through this connection. If a project needs again, you can link it to any available connection.

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How to delete a connection

Workspace admins and owners can delete connections. Other members can delete a connection if they created it, or if they have been explicitly granted access to it.
Deleting a connection is permanent and cannot be undone. It will remove the credentials from all linked projects, and any apps using this connection will stop working until a new connection is added.
Before deleting, review the Linked projects section to see which projects are currently using the connection. To delete a connection:
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Open Connectors

Open Connectors, then go to App connectors, and select .
2

Open the connection

Open the connection you want to remove.
3

Review linked projects

Review the Linked projects section.
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Delete

Under Delete this connection, click Delete and confirm.