Sonar is Perplexity's lightweight search model that combines LLM capabilities with built-in web search. It returns AI-generated answers with inline citations from web sources.

Best for: Quick factual queries, simple Q&A, real-time information lookup.

Model: sonar

Example

curl -X POST "https://api.aisa.one/apis/v1/perplexity/sonar" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sonar",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "What are the latest developments in quantum computing?"}
    ]
  }'

Response

The response follows the OpenAI chat completion format, with additional citations and search_results fields containing the web sources used to generate the answer.