# Perplexity: Embed V1 0.6B

- Model id: `perplexity/pplx-embed-v1-0.6b`
- Served by: -
- List price per 1M tokens, input, from: -, with 0% platform fee. A request is billed at the list price of the host that served it.
- Context: 32K
- Prices read 2026-11-15 09:33 UTC
- Page: https://plaingateway.com/models/perplexity/pplx-embed-v1-0.6b

pplx-embed-v1-0.6B is one of Perplexity's state-of-the-art text embedding models built for real-world, web-scale retrieval. pplx-embed-v1 is optimized for standard dense text retrieval with the 0.6B parameter model targeting lightweight, low-latency...

## Hosts

| Host | Endpoint | Input /M | Cache read /M | Context | Served |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | `perplexity/int8` | $0.004 input | - | 32K | no |

## First request

```sh
curl https://api.plaingateway.com/api/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PLAINGATEWAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "perplexity/pplx-embed-v1-0.6b", "input": "The quick brown fox"}'
```

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