Perplexity-Sonar
Provider: Perplexity
Category: Research & Search
Endpoint: POST /v1/search
Context window: 127K
Served from: —
Real-time web-connected search with accurate citations and customizable sources for up-to-date AI search integration in production apps.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Model id | perplexity-sonar |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Context window | 127K |
| Region | — |
| Features | web_search |
| New | No |
| Native inference | No |
| Charge | Spec | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Base Fee (Low Context) | per request | $0.012 |
| Base Fee (Medium Context) | per request | $0.019 |
| Base Fee (High Context) | per request | $0.029 |
| Input & Output Tokens | per 1k tokens | $0.0024 |
$ curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/search \ > -H 'Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY' \ > -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ > -d '{"model": "perplexity-sonar", "query": "latest LLM benchmarks 2026"}'
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
search_context_size | enum | no | "medium" | low: cheaper + faster, fewer sources. medium: balanced. high: more sources, deeper context. · Allowed: low, medium, high |
search_mode | enum | no | "default" | Filter source type. default: all sources. academic: peer-reviewed/academic only. sec: SEC filings only. · Allowed: default, academic, sec |
search_recency_filter | enum | no | "none" | Restrict to results from the last N. Use ‘none’ to disable. · Allowed: none, day, week, month, year |
search_after_date | string | no | — | Publication date filter (MM/DD/YYYY). |
search_before_date | string | no | — | Publication date filter (MM/DD/YYYY). |
last_updated_after_filter | string | no | — | Last-modified filter (MM/DD/YYYY). |
last_updated_before_filter | string | no | — | Last-modified filter (MM/DD/YYYY). |
search_language_filter | string | no | — | Comma-separated ISO-639-1 language codes (max 10). |
search_domain_filter | string | no | — | Comma-separated allowlist. Prefix with - to deny (e.g. -reddit.com). |
country | string | no | — | ISO alpha-2 country for user-location bias. |
region | string | no | — | Region/state for user-location bias. |
city | string | no | — | City for user-location bias. |
latitude | number | no | — | Latitude for user-location bias. |
longitude | number | no | — | Longitude for user-location bias. |
return_images | boolean | no | false | Include image results. |
image_domain_filter | string | no | — | Comma-separated domains to allow images from. Only when return_images=true. |
image_format_filter | enum | no | — | Restrict image formats. Only when return_images=true. · Allowed: gif, jpg, png, webp |
return_videos | boolean | no | false | Include video results. |
return_citations | boolean | no | true | Include citations array on response. |
return_related_questions | boolean | no | false | Include suggested follow-up questions. |
temperature | number | no | 0.2 | Sampling temperature. · Range: 0 – 2 |
top_p | number | no | 0.9 | Nucleus sampling. · Range: 0 – 1 |
max_tokens | number | no | 4096 | Max output tokens. · Range: 1 – 32768 |
disable_formatting | boolean | no | false | Return raw upstream response. |
Live machine-readable schema is also available at GET https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/models/perplexity-sonar.
