How much does Sonar Pro Search cost?

Billing is usage-based: $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use.

How do I access Sonar Pro Search from inside Iran?

Create a Hormouz account and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Is Sonar Pro Search compatible with OpenAI code?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.

What context window and capabilities does Sonar Pro Search have?

Sonar Pro Search works with a context window of about 200K tokens. It also accepts image input, can produce explicit reasoning. That makes it suitable for autonomous research agents, deep search workflows and analyst tooling.

Which provider serves Sonar Pro Search on Hormouz?

Hormouz is the provider you connect to and bill through. It routes your request to the model and handles access, billing and stable connectivity from inside Iran on your behalf.

Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search: AI model

Sonar Pro Search is an agentic search model that plans and runs full research workflows from Perplexity. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 200,000 tokens
Input:: $3/1M tokens
Output:: $15/1M tokens
Type:: text, image

Vision
Streaming
Long context

Thinking levels: Always thinks

Sonar Pro Search is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search mode. Rather than a single query-and-synthesis pass, it plans and executes multi-step research workflows autonomously, using tools along the way, over a 200K-token context. Pricing combines per-token cost with a per-request search fee.

Sonar Pro Search is a good fit for autonomous research agents, deep search workflows and analyst tooling. It supports image input and explicit reasoning. The model works with a context window of about 200K tokens, so it comfortably handles long inputs. It is served through Hormouz behind an OpenAI-compatible API. Just point your base URL at Hormouz and drop in a Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.

Pricing is usage-based: $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, billed only for what you use. Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	Perplexity
Type	Text, Image
Context window	200,000 tokens
Pricing	$3.00/M in · $15.00/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Vision

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Sonar Pro Search cost?: Billing is usage-based: $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use.
How do I access Sonar Pro Search from inside Iran?: Create a Hormouz account and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.
Is Sonar Pro Search compatible with OpenAI code?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.
What context window and capabilities does Sonar Pro Search have?: Sonar Pro Search works with a context window of about 200K tokens. It also accepts image input, can produce explicit reasoning. That makes it suitable for autonomous research agents, deep search workflows and analyst tooling.
What is Sonar Pro Search good for?: It is best suited to autonomous research agents, deep search workflows and analyst tooling.
Which provider serves Sonar Pro Search on Hormouz?: Hormouz is the provider you connect to and bill through. It routes your request to the model and handles access, billing and stable connectivity from inside Iran on your behalf.

Updated 2026-10-13