Pro Search — Now Generally Available for Sonar Pro

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Pro Search is now generally available for sonar-pro.

Pro Search enhances your queries with automated tool usage, enabling multi-step reasoning through intelligent tool orchestration.

What’s new

  • Multi-step reasoning — the model automatically performs multiple web searches and fetches URL content to build comprehensive answers
  • Real-time thought streaming — watch the model’s reasoning process as it works through your question
  • Automatic classification — use search_type: "auto" to let the system route queries based on complexity
  • Built-in tools — web_search and fetch_url_content are used automatically
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="sonar-pro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Research solar panel ROI for California homes"}],
    search_type="pro",
    stream=True  # Required for Pro Search
)

for chunk in completion:
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="")

Important: Pro Search requires stream=True. Non-streaming requests will return an error.

Search Type Description Per 1K Requests
pro Full multi-step reasoning $14–$22
fast Quick search, fewer steps $6–$14
auto AI decides based on query varies

Docs: Pro Search Quickstart | Pro Search Tools