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Power your products with the fastest, cheapest grounded search APIs out there, including Reasoning and Deep Research capabilities.
Power your products with the fastest, cheapest grounded search APIs out there, including Reasoning and Deep Research capabilities.
Outperforms the rest
Unparalleled real-time, web-wide research and Q&A capabilities.
Outperforms the rest
Unparalleled real-time, web-wide research and Q&A capabilities.
Outperforms the rest
Outperforms the rest
Unparalleled real-time, web-wide research and Q&A capabilities.
Private and secure
No LLM training on your data.
Private and secure
No LLM training on your data.
Private and secure
No LLM training on your data.
Most affordable
Sonar's grounding request pricing has the competition beat.
Most affordable
Sonar's grounding request pricing has the competition beat.
Most affordable
Sonar's grounding request pricing has the competition beat.



Sonar keeps you leaps ahead. At any scale, whatever you need.
Premier search offering with search grounding, supporting advanced queries and follow-ups.
Sample Query
What is [company's] projected Q4 strategy?
Sonar Pro Features
Premier search offering with search grounding, supporting advanced queries and follow-ups.
Sample Query
What is [company's] projected Q4 strategy?
Sonar Pro Features
Premier search offering with search grounding, supporting advanced queries and follow-ups.
Sample Query
What is [company's] projected Q4 strategy?
Features
Lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.
Sample Query
Where is [company] based?
Sonar Features
Lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.
Sample Query
Where is [company] based?
Sonar Features
Lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.
Sample Query
Where is [company] based?
Features
Premier reasoning offering powered by DeepSeek R1.
Sample Prompt
Provide a detailed analysis of the market trends in the retail sector in 2025
Sonar Reasoning Pro Features
Premier reasoning offering powered by DeepSeek R1.
Sample Prompt
Provide a detailed analysis of the market trends in the retail sector in 2025
Reasoning Pro Features
Premier reasoning offering powered by DeepSeek R1.
Sample Prompt
Provide a detailed analysis of the market trends in the retail sector in 2025
Features
Lightweight reasoning offering powered by reasoning models trained with DeepSeek R1.
Sample Prompt
Make an investment thesis for upcoming US IPOs
Sonar Reasoning Features
Lightweight reasoning offering powered by reasoning models trained with DeepSeek R1.
Sample Prompt
Make an investment thesis for upcoming US IPOs
Reasoning Features
Lightweight reasoning offering powered by reasoning models trained with DeepSeek R1.
Sample Prompt
Make an investment thesis for upcoming US IPOs
Features
Deep Research conducts comprehensive, expert-level research and synthesizes it into accessible, actionable reports.
Sample Prompt
How have this year’s US tariffs affected commodity prices around the world? Give me a detailed comprehensive timeline
Sonar Deep Research Features
Deep Research conducts comprehensive, expert-level research and synthesizes it into accessible, actionable reports.
Sample Prompt
How have this year’s US tariffs affected commodity prices around the world? Give me a detailed comprehensive timeline
Sonar Deep Research Features
Deep Research conducts comprehensive, expert-level research and synthesizes it into accessible, actionable reports.
Sample Prompt
How have this year’s US tariffs affected commodity prices around the world? Give me a detailed comprehensive timeline
Deep Research Features
R1 1776
R1 1776 is a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that has been post-trained to provide uncensored, unbiased, and factual information.
R1 1776
R1 1776 is a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that has been post-trained to provide uncensored, unbiased, and factual information.
R1 1776
R1 1776 is a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that has been post-trained to provide uncensored, unbiased, and factual information.
Put Sonar to the test in the Perplexity Labs playground.
Put Sonar to the test in the Perplexity Labs playground.
Put Sonar to the test in the Perplexity Labs playground.
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Additional resources to get you started with Sonar.
Check out our upcoming events and read our previous blog posts.
Livestream + Q&A
An Introduction to Perplexity's API with Denis Yartas
Apr 23, 2025 11AM PST
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Weekly Sessions
Sonar API Office Hours
Wednesdays, 3PM PST
Register
Blog Post
Improved Sonar Models: Industry-Leading Performance
Blog Post
Open-Sourcing R1 1776
Blog Post
Meet New Sonar
Blog Post
Introducing the Sonar Pro API by Perplexity
Livestream + Q&A
An Introduction to Perplexity's API with Denis Yartas
Apr 23, 2025 11AM PST
Replay
Weekly Sessions
Sonar API Office Hours
Wednesdays, 3PM PST
Register
Blog Post
Improved Sonar Models: Industry-Leading Performance
Blog Post
Open-Sourcing R1 1776
Blog Post
Meet New Sonar
Blog Post
Introducing the Sonar Pro API by Perplexity
Powered by Perplexity. Propelling customer growth.
Testimonial
“We partner with Perplexity to help go-to-market teams execute account research on their target companies. We’re able to find information that isn’t readily available from other structured data sources.
We’ve helped companies save 8 hours of research per rep per week which led to a 20% increase in throughput.”
Chris Lu, Founder and CTO of Copy.ai
Testimonial
"Perplexity's API is fast, easy to integrate, and the AI market leader for summarizing the most recent information. For physicians, we're proud to deliver these up-to-the-minute results along with our source filtering & proprietary content to provide accurate, cited clinical answers that improve patient care."
Jake Konoske, Director of Product, Doximity
Testimonial
“We partner with Perplexity to help go-to-market teams execute account research on their target companies. We’re able to find information that isn’t readily available from other structured data sources.
We’ve helped companies save 8 hours of research per rep per week which led to a 20% increase in throughput.”
Chris Lu, Founder and CTO of Copy.ai
Testimonial
"Perplexity's API is fast, easy to integrate, and the AI market leader for summarizing the most recent information. For physicians, we're proud to deliver these up-to-the-minute results along with our source filtering & proprietary content to provide accurate, cited clinical answers that improve patient care."
Jake Konoske, Director of Product, Doximity
Testimonial
“We partner with Perplexity to help go-to-market teams execute account research on their target companies. We’re able to find information that isn’t readily available from other structured data sources.
We’ve helped companies save 8 hours of research per rep per week which led to a 20% increase in throughput.”
Chris Lu, Founder and CTO of Copy.ai
Testimonial
"Perplexity's API is fast, easy to integrate, and the AI market leader for summarizing the most recent information. For physicians, we're proud to deliver these up-to-the-minute results along with our source filtering & proprietary content to provide accurate, cited clinical answers that improve patient care."
Jake Konoske, Director of Product, Doximity
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