Sonars

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Sonars, part of the Perplexity API Platform, offers advanced AI models for real-time web search and grounded chat completions. It provides conversational answers with citations and structured retrieval from billions of webpages.

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Pricing

Paid · Usage-based

Free tier

API

Yes

Skill level

Technical

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What is Sonars?

Sonars is a key component of the Perplexity API Platform, designed to empower developers to build AI applications with web-grounded chat completions and reasoning models. It leverages advanced AI models to deliver real-time web search capabilities, providing conversational answers that are backed by citations for accuracy and transparency. The platform also excels in structured retrieval from billions of webpages, ensuring comprehensive and relevant information. Sonars is ideal for integrating robust AI search and Q&A functionalities into various products, offering unparalleled real-time research capabilities and enabling developers to customize configurations for agentic workflows.

Best used for

Ideal for developers and businesses who need to integrate real-time web search, provide conversational answers with citations, and perform structured data retrieval. Especially valuable for powering AI-driven applications that require accurate, web-grounded information and customizable agentic workflows.

Common actions

build AI applications

integrate search API

retrieve structured data

ground LLM responses

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Capabilities

Key features

Real-time web search
Conversational answers
Citations for answers
Structured retrieval
Agentic workflow orchestration
Customizable configurations

Target Audience

developerbusiness ownerresearcher

Integrations

Not yet documented

Pricing & Plans

Paid · Usage-based

Freemium

FAQs

What kind of AI applications can be built using Sonar?

Sonar is designed for building AI applications that require web-grounded chat completions, real-time web search, and reasoning models. This includes tools for Q&A, research, and any application needing accurate, cited information from the web.

Does Sonar provide citations for its answers?

Yes, Sonar API provides conversational answers with citations. This feature ensures that the information retrieved and presented by the AI models is verifiable and grounded in real-time web sources, enhancing trustworthiness and transparency.

Can I customize the configurations for agentic workflows with Sonar?

Absolutely. Sonar allows users to orchestrate agentic workflows across supported frontier models with built-in web search, URL fetching, and reasoning controls. You can use Perplexity’s research-optimized presets or fully customize your own configurations to suit specific needs.

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