# Disable search in API **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [May 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/disable-search-in-api/135 "2025-05-15T00:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/disable-search-in-api/135/1 "2025-05-15T00:28:13Z")
How can I disable the sonar reasoning search function in the API? I mainly want to use the uncensored version of the Deepseek R1 model. ---
**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/disable-search-in-api/135/2 "2025-05-15T00:28:16Z")
I was also wondering the same thing. The only idea I initially have is to do any or all of the following perhaps (untested for the moment): - search\_domain\_filter = [“[someinvaliddomain.com](http://someinvaliddomain.com)” ] (this I imagine would limit search results used to anything from [someinvaliddomain.com](http://someinvaliddomain.com)) - search\_recency\_filter = “hour” (this I imagine would limit the search results to anything up to one hour ago) Beware however that search\_domain\_filter is restricted to usage tier 3 unfortunately. I assume you can still use the search\_recency\_filter but it won’t be as effective I guess. It also feels like the reasoning time is shorter with this model compared to actual R1, but maybe that’s just me. I’ve noticed that with the search results it’s confusing R1 occasionally. On three strawberry tests it failed one because it thought I was talking about the difficulty of the AI counting the letter R due to the search results, instead of answering my question “how many R’s are in the word strawberry?”.