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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

Unparalleled real-time, web-wide research and Q&A capabilities.

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.

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.

Sonar keeps you leaps ahead. At any scale, whatever you need.

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

Advanced CoT reasoning

Enhanced chain-of-thought reasoning, plus real-time internet search and citations

US-based

Sonar Reasoning Pro is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters

Data privacy

No training on customer data, just like all Sonar products

In-depth answers with 2x more citations than Sonar Reasoning on average

Advanced information retrieval from multiple web searches

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Scale pricing

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

Advanced CoT reasoning

Enhanced chain-of-thought reasoning, plus real-time internet search and citations

US-based

Sonar Reasoning Pro is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters

Data privacy

No training on customer data, just like all Sonar products

In-depth answers with 2x more citations than Sonar Reasoning on average

Advanced information retrieval from multiple web searches

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Scale pricing

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

Advanced CoT reasoning

Enhanced chain-of-thought reasoning, plus real-time internet search and citations

US-based

Sonar Reasoning Pro is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters

Data privacy

No training on customer data, just like all Sonar products

In-depth answers with 2x more citations than Sonar Reasoning on average

Advanced information retrieval from multiple web searches

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Scale pricing

Lightweight reasoning offering powered by reasoning models trained with DeepSeek R1.

Sample Prompt

Make an investment thesis for upcoming US IPOs

Sonar Reasoning Features

CoT reasoning

Chain-of-thought reasoning, plus real-time internet search and citations

US-based

Sonar Reasoning is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters

Data privacy

No training on customer data, just like all Sonar products

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Flat pricing

Lightweight reasoning offering powered by reasoning models trained with DeepSeek R1.

Sample Prompt

Make an investment thesis for upcoming US IPOs

Sonar Reasoning Features

CoT reasoning

Chain-of-thought reasoning, plus real-time internet search and citations

US-based

Sonar Reasoning is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters

Data privacy

No training on customer data, just like Sonar Pro and Sonar

Self-serve API access

No training on customer data—just like Sonar Pro and Sonar

Flat pricing

Lightweight reasoning offering powered by reasoning models trained with DeepSeek R1.

Sample Prompt

Make an investment thesis for upcoming US IPOs

Sonar Reasoning Features

CoT reasoning

Chain-of-thought reasoning, plus real-time internet search and citations

US-based

Sonar Reasoning is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters

Data privacy

No training on customer data, just like all Sonar products

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Flat pricing

Premier search offering with search grounding, supporting advanced queries and follow-ups.

Sample Query

What is [company's] projected Q4 strategy?

Sonar Pro Features

Built for complexity

Ideal for multi-step tasks requiring deep understanding and context retention

In-depth answers with 2x more citations than Sonar on average

Advanced information retrieval from multiple web searches

Uses robust models

Full firepower for top-tier processing

Larger context window

Upleveled memory means higher efficiency

Data privacy

No training on customer data

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Scale pricing

Premier offering with search grounding, supporting advanced queries and follow-ups.

Sample Query

What is [company's] projected Q4 strategy?

Sonar Pro Features

Built for complexity

Ideal for multi-step tasks requiring deep understanding and context retention

In-depth answers with 2x more citations than Sonar on average

Advanced information retrieval from multiple web searches

Uses robust models

Full firepower for top-tier processing

Larger context window

Upleveled memory means higher efficiency

Data privacy

No training on customer data

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Scale pricing

Premier search offering with search grounding, supporting advanced queries and follow-ups.

Sample Query

What is [company's] projected Q4 strategy?

Sonar Pro Features

Built for complexity

Ideal for multi-step tasks requiring deep understanding and context retention

In-depth answers with 2x more citations than Sonar on average

Advanced information retrieval from multiple web searches

Uses robust models

Full firepower for top-tier processing

Larger context window

Upleveled memory means higher efficiency

Data privacy

No training on customer data

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Scale pricing

Lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.

Sample Query

Where is [company] based?

Sonar Features

Straightforward answers with citations

Real-time web search backed answers for accuracy of information

Uses lightweight models

Optimal balance of speed and cost

Data privacy

No training on customer data

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Flat pricing

Lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.

Sample Query

Where is [company] based?

Sonar Features

Straightforward answers with citations

Real-time web search backed answers for accuracy of information

Uses lightweight models

Optimal balance of speed and cost

Data privacy

No training on customer data

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Flat pricing

Lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.

Sample Query

Where is [company] based?

Sonar Features

Straightforward answers with citations

Real-time web search backed answers for accuracy of information

Uses lightweight models

Optimal balance of speed and cost

Data privacy

No training on customer data

Self-serve API access

Get started immediately

Flat pricing

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.

The answer API that outperforms leading search engines and LLMs.

Sonar Pro answer quality bests the field in SimpleQA benchmark findings.

Powered by Perplexity. Propelling customer growth.

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