Sonar Pro Model to research product specs and cite sources
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Sonar Pro is Perplexity’s advanced web-grounded answer model, tuned for complex, multi-source queries and long-context synthesis. It is for researchers, product managers, analysts, and developers who need answers that include live citations and visual context.
What it can do
- Reads images and screenshots
- Searches the live web and cites sources
What people use it for
Product specification verification
Ask Sonar Pro to compare hardware specs, warranty terms, and compatibility across vendors; it searches the live web, summarizes differences, and includes the source links you can click to verify.
Market research with supporting citations
Collect recent pricing, category rankings, and review excerpts across multiple sites; Sonar Pro synthesizes the findings into a single summary and returns the pages it used so you can follow up.
Technical debugging and explanation with context
Feed long logs, screenshots, or a multi-file code problem and Sonar Pro keeps large context windows, inspects visual inputs, and cites documentation or forum posts it used to form the answer.
Why it is worth it
- Answers grounded in live web search with clickable citations for verification.
- Handles large context windows and images to keep multi-file or visual problems in scope.
- Best chosen selectively for high-confidence synthesis where source tracing matters.
- Available via API for embedding research-grade web answers into tools and apps.
Questions people ask
When should I choose Sonar Pro instead of the standard Sonar model?
Pick Sonar Pro for complex queries that need deeper synthesis, more search results, longer context, or image inputs. For short factual lookups or low-cost requests, the standard Sonar model is usually sufficient.
Does Sonar Pro provide citations and live web grounding?
Yes. Sonar Pro runs live web search and returns synthesized answers together with the sources it used so you can verify claims. This is part of Perplexity’s design for research-focused answers.
How is billing handled on Katteb for Sonar Pro?
Katteb runs Sonar Pro as a chat model billed per message in credits. Each Sonar Pro message costs 35 credits on Katteb; you are charged for actual usage per reply. (No dollar prices are shown on this page.)
