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Sonar Pro API Introduction

Author: LoRA Time: 22 Jan 2025 1131

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The proliferation of artificial intelligence has brought unprecedented opportunities to developers, but accuracy has become a new key challenge. Traditional generative AI relies heavily on training data, limiting its capabilities, while real-time Internet-connected APIs offer higher potential for optimizing factuality and authoritativeness.

Introduction to Sonar and Sonar Pro API
Perplexity's Sonar and Sonar Pro APIs provide real-time, comprehensive web search capabilities and integrate inline citations to ensure answers come from trusted sources. The Sonar Pro API is open to developers and supports advanced features, including JSON schema and search domain filters, suitable for specific application scenarios.

Feature Highlights

  • Sonar API : lightweight, fast, affordable, supports citations and custom sources, perfect for companies that need quick Q&A capabilities.

  • Sonar Pro API : supports complex queries and multi-step searches, has a larger context window and twice the reference capability of Sonar, and is designed for in-depth and detailed search needs.

Practical application scenarios

  1. Sales and Research : Copy AI uses Sonar integration to save each sales representative 8 hours of research time per week, significantly improving efficiency and output.

  2. Medical field : Doximity provides doctors with real-time, accurate answers based on medical journals, greatly improving the efficiency and credibility of medical decision-making.

  3. Enterprise Integration : Zoom AI Companion 2.0 uses Sonar Pro to enable real-time search within video conferences without leaving the conference environment.

Performance and factuality 

On the mainstream factual test benchmark SimpleQA, Sonar Pro leads the market with an F score of 0.858, demonstrating its powerful ability to combine LLM and real-time information.

Summarize
The Sonar Pro API is the ideal tool for building real-time generative search capabilities for needs ranging from basic Q&A to complex enterprise integrations.
To get started, visit the Sonar API official documentation .