Sonar Pro Search

by Perplexity

Zero data retention
perplexity/sonar-pro-search
Input
$4.20/1M tokens
Output
$21.00/1M tokens
Context
200Ktokens
Max output
8Ktokens
Knows to
-
Released
30 Oct 2025

About

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

Input$4.20per 1M prompt tokens
Output$21.00per 1M generated tokens, reasoning included
Web search$0.025per request that uses the provider’s built-in search

What a request costs

Typical requestEachPer 1,000
Short chat reply1,500 in · 400 out$0.015$14.70
Question over a long document40,000 in · 800 out$0.185$184.80
Agent tool step20,000 in · 1,200 out$0.109$109.20

At the developer-API rate, before any provider promotion or prompt-cache saving. In the app, the model picker shows what a message costs on your plan before you send it.

Call it from code

OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.privateer.pro/v1 and set model. Keys are created in the app under Settings.

cURL
curl https://api.privateer.pro/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PRIVATEER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
  }'
Python
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["PRIVATEER_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)
JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.PRIVATEER_API_KEY,
});
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);

Parameters this model accepts

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoningmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningstructured_outputstemperaturetop_ktop_pweb_search_options

API reference → · How API billing works →

Prices are USD at the developer-API rate, as of 16 Oct 2026, rebuilt daily from the providers’ live catalogues. ← All models