Perplexity APIVerified

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Generate fast citation-backed answers with Perplexity Sonar.

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Endpoints

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POST

Sonar

/apis/v1/perplexity/sonar

Generate lightweight web-grounded answers with citations.

Sonar

POST/apis/v1/perplexity/sonar

Path parameters

This endpoint has no path parameters.

cURL request

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://api.aisa.one/apis/v1/perplexity/sonar" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "model": "sonar",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What are the latest developments in quantum computing?"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 800,
  "temperature": 0.2,
  "top_p": 0.9,
  "search_context": "medium",
  "return_citations": true,
  "search_recency_filter": "month",
  "search_domain_filter": [
    "nature.com",
    "quantamagazine.org"
  ]
}'

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