Sonar Reasoning
Lightweight reasoning offering powered by reasoning models trained with DeepSeek R1.
Perplexity Sonar Reasoning
Chain-of-thought reasoning, plus real-time internet search and citations. Sonar Reasoning is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters.
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Determines whether or not a request to an online model should return citations.
Determines whether or not a request to an online model should return images.
Controls how much web information is retrieved. Higher context provides more comprehensive results but costs more per request.
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