diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index d353515..788b0fa 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.21.0"
+  ".": "0.22.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4797a2e..4bb4a9e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.22.0 (2026-01-24)
+
+Full Changelog: [v0.21.0...v0.22.0](https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-node/compare/v0.21.0...v0.22.0)
+
+### Features
+
+* **client:** integrate output_text automatically in responses.create() ([2b8b60a](https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-node/commit/2b8b60afe9e4cbb28dc6fbe66201c29d53bb60bc))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* remove trailing whitespace in responses.ts ([9808062](https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-node/commit/9808062dc0acd80dd4b30280ac36ebc81402f5b7))
+
 ## 0.21.0 (2026-01-24)
 
 Full Changelog: [v0.20.0...v0.21.0](https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-node/compare/v0.20.0...v0.21.0)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5fd11bc..492ac00 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@perplexity-ai/perplexity_ai",
-  "version": "0.21.0",
+  "version": "0.22.0",
   "description": "The official TypeScript library for the Perplexity API",
   "author": "Perplexity <api@perplexity.ai>",
   "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
diff --git a/src/resources/responses.ts b/src/resources/responses.ts
index 3799927..734dd4a 100644
--- a/src/resources/responses.ts
+++ b/src/resources/responses.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import * as Shared from './shared';
 import { APIPromise } from '../core/api-promise';
 import { Stream } from '../core/streaming';
 import { RequestOptions } from '../internal/request-options';
+import { addOutputText } from '../lib/add-output-text';
 
 export class Responses extends APIResource {
   /**
@@ -28,9 +29,19 @@ export class Responses extends APIResource {
     body: ResponseCreateParams,
     options?: RequestOptions,
   ): APIPromise<ResponseCreateResponse> | APIPromise<Stream<ResponseStreamChunk>> {
-    return this._client.post('/v1/responses', { body, ...options, stream: body.stream ?? false }) as
-      | APIPromise<ResponseCreateResponse>
-      | APIPromise<Stream<ResponseStreamChunk>>;
+    const promise = this._client.post('/v1/responses', { body, ...options, stream: body.stream ?? false });
+
+    // For non-streaming responses, automatically add output_text property
+    if (!body.stream) {
+      return (promise as APIPromise<ResponseCreateResponse>)._thenUnwrap((rsp) => {
+        if ('object' in rsp && rsp.object === 'response') {
+          addOutputText(rsp as ResponseCreateResponse);
+        }
+        return rsp;
+      }) as APIPromise<ResponseCreateResponse>;
+    }
+
+    return promise as APIPromise<Stream<ResponseStreamChunk>>;
   }
 }
 
@@ -996,6 +1007,12 @@ export interface ResponseCreateResponse {
   error?: ErrorInfo;
 
   usage?: ResponsesUsage;
+
+  /**
+   * Convenience property that aggregates all `output_text` items from the `output` list.
+   * If no `output_text` content blocks exist, then an empty string is returned.
+   */
+  output_text?: string;
 }
 
 export type ResponseCreateParams = ResponseCreateParamsNonStreaming | ResponseCreateParamsStreaming;
diff --git a/src/version.ts b/src/version.ts
index bc95435..db66d33 100644
--- a/src/version.ts
+++ b/src/version.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const VERSION = '0.21.0'; // x-release-please-version
+export const VERSION = '0.22.0'; // x-release-please-version