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Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search

Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. $3 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 200,000 token context window, maximum output of 8,000 tokens.

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Overview

Model specifications

Context
200,000 tokens
Maximum output
8,000 tokens
Architecture
text+image->text
Tokenizer
Other
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$3
/M tokens
Output
$15
/M tokens
Web search
$18
/1K calls
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Moderated
Yes
Default parameters
No
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"perplexity/sonar-pro-search","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

Input → Output

Input
textimage
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoningmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningstructured_outputstemperaturetop_ktop_pweb_search_options
Available providers

1 Provider

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Perplexity

unknown
Context
200K
Maximum output
8K
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided
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