AUP compliance check — health education app using Sonar API

General
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Hi everyone,

I’m building an iOS app that records doctor-patient conversations, transcribes them, extracts medical claims (prescriptions, factual statements, recommendations), and provides evidence context from medical literature.

Planning to use the Sonar API for the evidence lookup step — essentially searching for relevant studies/guidelines and presenting users with a summary + sources.

Key points:
• Not a medical device, no diagnosis or treatment recommendations
• Positioned as health education / informational tool
• All results include “For educational purposes only” disclaimer
• Users see cited sources and are told to discuss with their doctor
• AI use is clearly disclosed

Wanting to verify: is this aligns with the AUP clause on “medical services that would typically require specialized credentials.”?

Happy to provide more details or hop on a quick call if helpful.

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Hey @aminbenarieb! From a general standpoint, your use case sounds like it falls within acceptable territory — you are using Sonar for evidence lookup and educational context, not for diagnosis or treatment recommendations, and you are clearly disclaiming the output as educational. That is a meaningful distinction.

That said, for formal clearance on AUP compliance, please reach out to api@perplexity.ai — the community forum is not the right channel for binding policy interpretations