Description

Sonar Reasoning is a reasoning model provided by Perplexity based on [DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1). It allows developers to utilize long chain of thought with built-in web search. Sonar Reasoning is uncensored and hosted in US datacenters.

Technical Specifications

Example API Call

curl -X POST https://api.neuralhub.xyz/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer NEURALHUB_API_KEY" \
-d '{
  "model": "perplexity/sonar-reasoning",
  "messages": [
    { "role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." },
    { "role": "user", "content": "" }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 500,
  "top_p": 0.9
}'

Response Format

The API returns an OpenAI-compatible response. Example:

{
  "id": "chatcmpl-<uuid>",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "created": 1765590282,
  "model": "perplexity/sonar-reasoning",
  "choices": [
    {
      "index": 0,
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "The answer to life, the universe, and everything is famously 42..."
      },
      "finish_reason": "stop"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 26,
    "completion_tokens": 169,
    "total_tokens": 195
  }
}