AI Tool Profile
Perplexity Sonar
This record retains the earlier Sonar Pro API launch. Perplexity says Sonar Chat Completions support ended on September 27, 2026. Synchronous and streaming requests continue through gradual reformulation as Agent API requests; asynchronous Sonar requests are no longer supported. Perplexity recommends the Agent API for new projects and migration to background mode for asynchronous work. This is a documentation review, not an API execution test.
Before you buy
Best for: Developers and companies that need web-grounded answers, search retrieval, and citations inside their own applications.
Price: Legacy Sonar interface; use current Agent API pricing
Included: Web-grounded API answers through the supported Perplexity migration path.
Main limits: Sonar Chat Completions support ended September 27, 2026. Async requests require migration; earlier Sonar plan prices do not price the current Agent API.
What Kingy showed: Related coverage: The AI Skill Stack: Best Free AI Courses in 2026 and What to Learn First. This review does not treat that article as a new test of this exact model, plan or current release.
Buying details checked 2026-10-23 with region and currency stated above. Historical demonstrations and the broader fact ledger keep their own dates.
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Coverage describes this profile, not a product score or a current price guarantee.
Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 3
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- October 23, 2026
What this evidence state means
- Definition
- The claim was previously checked, but its review window expired or a material change may have invalidated it.
- Required provenance
- The prior evidence and check date are retained, together with the expiry or change signal that triggered recheck.
- Owner
- Kingy freshness queue owner and assigned editorial reviewer
- Freshness rule
- This is already outside its freshness rule. It must not be presented as current until reviewed against current evidence.
- Disputes and corrections
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record. Kingy editorial reviews the cited evidence, records material corrections, and changes or removes the state when it is not supported.
Key source checks
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Who should consider it
Developers and companies that need web-grounded answers, search retrieval, and citations inside their own applications. This record retains the earlier Sonar Pro API launch. Perplexity says Sonar Chat Completions support ended on September 27, 2026. Synchronous and streaming requests continue through gradual reformulation as Agent API requests; asynchronous Sonar requests are no longer supported. Perplexity recommends the Agent API for new projects and migration to background mode for asynchronous work. This is a documentation review, not an API execution test.
Plan, price and billing scope
Legacy Sonar interface; use current Agent API pricing. Web-grounded API answers through the supported Perplexity migration path. Prices use the currency and billing term stated here. Where a numeric rate, region or current entitlement could not be verified, it remains explicit; no checkout was completed.
Limits that affect the decision
Sonar Chat Completions support ended September 27, 2026. Async requests require migration; earlier Sonar plan prices do not price the current Agent API.
What the existing evidence shows
Related coverage: The AI Skill Stack: Best Free AI Courses in 2026 and What to Learn First. This review does not treat that article as a new test of this exact model, plan or current release. Related workflow reading; not a demonstration of this exact product. Read the related article. Open the previously linked demo.
Sources and buying-review date
Buying review completed October 23, 2026. This is a source-based buying assessment. No paid product test, new generation, checkout or performance benchmark was performed. Vendor descriptions and historical examples remain distinct from independently measured results. The date does not renew the broader canonical fact ledger.
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Earlier profile, sources and dates
This older record retains its original scope. Current buying qualifications above take precedence where terms have changed.
Perplexity introduced Sonar Pro API access for developers building search-grounded AI products with citations and web retrieval.
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Launch History
Introducing the Sonar Pro API by Perplexity
Perplexity introduced Sonar Pro API access for developers building search-grounded AI products with citations and web retrieval.
- Launch readiness
- 6.6 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
This record retains the earlier Sonar Pro API launch. Perplexity says Sonar Chat Completions support ended on September 27, 2026. Synchronous and streaming requests…