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Sonar Pro

sonar-pro

Sonar Pro by Perplexity.

Context: 200K tokens
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Pricing

Input$3.00 / 1M

Output$15.00 / 1M

Cache Write (5m)$3.00 / 1M

Cache Write (1h)$3.00 / 1M

Cache Read$3.00 / 1M

Web Search$0 / 1M

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python

from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="sonar-pro",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="sonar-pro",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

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Common7 params

modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools

Extended4 params

reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

Cursor IDE Model IDs

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sonar-pro

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