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Sonar Pro Search

sonar-pro-search

Sonar Pro Search is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system, available only via OpenRouter. It powers the Pro Search mode on Perplexity, adding autonomous multi-step research workflows instead of single-query answers. Pricing combines token costs with a per-request fee.

Context
200K tokens
Endpoint
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Pricing

Input$3.75 / 1M
Output$18.75 / 1M
Cache Write (5m)$3.75 / 1M
Cache Write (1h)$3.75 / 1M
Cache Read$3.75 / 1M
Web Search$0 / 1M

Quick Start

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Endpoint
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-search",    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-search",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

API docs
Common7 params
modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools
Extended4 params
reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

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