Sonar Pro - Kyma API

Overview

sonar-pro is Perplexity’s pro web-search model. Like sonar, it answers from a live search of the web with citations — but it searches deeper, reasons over more sources, and writes longer, more complete answers. Use it for complex current-events questions and research tasks where a one-line lookup is not enough. Sonar Pro does its own searching internally. You send a question; it returns a grounded, cited report. It does not support tool calling.

Specs

Field	Value
Model ID	`sonar-pro`
Best for	Deep web research, complex current-events questions, longer cited reports
Context window	200K
Max output tokens	8K
Input modalities	Text, image
Output modalities	Text
Tool calling	No
Structured outputs	No
Prompt caching	No
Speed	Medium
Cost band	Premium
Release stage	Stable

Pricing

Sonar Pro bills two ways on the same request:

Tokens — $4.05 / 1M input,$ 20.25 / 1M output.
Web-search fee — a flat $0.00675 per request, on top of tokens, for the live search.

Because the search fee is flat, it matters less here than on sonar — Sonar Pro’s longer, multi-source answers make the output tokens the larger line item. Every response’s usage.cost already includes the search fee. See Pricing → Web search.

Use this when

The question is complex and current — multi-part research, comparisons across recent sources, “what changed and why.”
You want a longer, well-cited answer rather than a quick fact.
You need more context room (200K) for a large prompt plus a long grounded response.

Pick something else when

A quick cited lookup is all you need: sonar is cheaper per request.
You need function calling / tools: use kimi-k2.6.
The task does not need fresh web data: a standard model avoids the per-request search fee entirely.

Example

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://kymaapi.com/v1", api_key="ky-...")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="sonar-pro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Compare the pricing and context windows of the three newest open-weight coding models released this quarter, with sources."}]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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