Sonar Pro Search

POST/v1/chat/completions

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 tokens plus $18 per thousand requests. This model powers the Pro Search mode on the Perplexity platform.

Request body

Parameters supported by this model. Values, defaults, and limits are read from the model registry.

stringmodelrequired

Model identifier. Set to perplexity/sonar-pro-search.

Default: perplexity/sonar-pro-search

array<object>messagesrequired

Conversation messages in system, user, or assistant order.

Optional<integer>max_tokens

Maximum number of tokens the model may generate in the response.

Range: −∞ to 8000

Optional<number>temperature

Sampling temperature. Lower values are more deterministic; higher values are more creative.

Range: 0 to 2

Default: 1

Optional<number>top_p

Nucleus sampling threshold. Use this or temperature, but usually not both.

Range: 0 to 1

Optional<boolean>stream

When true, returns incremental Server-Sent Events instead of one completed response.

Default: false

Optional<number>presence_penalty

Penalizes tokens that already appeared, encouraging the model to introduce new topics.

Range: -2 to 2

Optional<number>frequency_penalty

Penalizes repeated tokens, reducing repetition in the generated response.

Range: -2 to 2

Optional<integer>top_k

Request parameter supported by this model.

Range: 0 to ∞

Response Schema

Fields returned by this model API response.

array<object>choicesrequired

Generated completion choices.

stringidrequired

Unique chat completion identifier.

stringmodelrequired

Model that generated the response.

Optional<object>usage

Token usage when available.

Model capabilities

array<string>capability_tagsrequired

Capabilities declared by the model registry.

Default: chat, vision, reasoning, structured_output

integercontext_lengthrequired

Maximum context window accepted by this model.

Default: 200000 tokens

stringexecution_moderequired

Execution mode declared by the model registry.

Default: sync

curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Describe this product in one sentence."
    }
  ]
}'

Response200 OK

{
  "id": "chatcmpl_abc123",
  "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
  "choices": [
    {
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "A concise product description."
      }
    }
  ]
}