Perplexity Production Checklist Overview Complete checklist for deploying Perplexity Sonar API integrations to production. Perplexity-specific concerns: every API call performs a live web search (variable latency), citations link to third-party sites (must validate), and costs scale per-request plus per-token. Prerequisites - Staging environment tested - Production API key generated (separate from dev/staging) - Monitoring configured - Cost budget defined Production Readiness Checklist API Configuration - [ ] Production in secret manager (not env file) - [ ] Key starts with and has credits lo…