Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search

perplexity/sonar-pro-search

Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based on...

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MODALITIES

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INPUT PRICE

$3per 1M

OUTPUT PRICE

$15per 1M

CONTEXT

200K

RELEASED

Oct 31, 2025

Provider				Uptime	Chat
FastAPI	—	$3	$15

Capabilities

Input modalities

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Output modalities

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Features

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoningmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningstructured_outputstemperaturetop_ktop_pweb_search_options

Get your API key

Create an API key from the Keys page, then set it as an environment variable:

export ONLIST_API_KEY=sk-...

Make your first request

Endpoints

POSThttps://onlist.io/v1/chat/completions

OpenAI Chat Completions format

Request Headers

Authorization:Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY

Content-Type:application/json

Model:perplexity/sonar-pro-search

POSThttps://onlist.io/v1/responses

OpenAI Responses format

Request Headers

Authorization:Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY

Content-Type:application/json

Model:perplexity/sonar-pro-search

POSThttps://onlist.io/v1/messages

Anthropic Messages format

Request Headers

Authorization:Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY

Content-Type:application/json

Model:perplexity/sonar-pro-search

Code samples

curl https://onlist.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
       "messages": [
         {
           "role": "user",
           "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in one paragraph."
         }
       ]
     }'

Replace $ONLIST_API_KEY with the API key from your Keys page.

Authentication

All requests must include an Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN> header. Generate keys from the Keys page; keys can be scoped to specific models, groups, IP ranges, and rate limits.

Enable streaming

Add "stream": true to receive partial responses as server-sent events in real time.

Streaming example

curl https://onlist.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
       "messages": [
         {
           "role": "user",
           "content": "Write a haiku about recursion."
         }
       ],
       "stream": true
     }'

Supported parameters

Name	Type	Description
`frequency_penalty`	number	Penalizes new tokens based on their existing frequency in the text (-2.0 to 2.0).
`include_reasoning`
`max_tokens`	integer	Maximum number of tokens to generate in the completion.
`presence_penalty`	number	Penalizes new tokens based on whether they appear in the text so far (-2.0 to 2.0).
`reasoning`
`structured_outputs`
`temperature`	number	Sampling temperature between 0 and 2. Higher values make output more random.
`top_k`	integer	Limits token selection to the k most likely candidates at each step.
`top_p`	number	Nucleus sampling. The model considers tokens with top_p probability mass.
`web_search_options`

These are the request parameters this model accepts. Parameter semantics follow the OpenAI Chat Completions specification.