Create Async Chat Completion

Submit an asynchronous chat completion request.

POST /v1/async/sonar

Create Async Chat Completion

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/async/sonar \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "request": {
    "model": "sonar-deep-research",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "<string>",
        "content": "<string>"
      }
    ]
  }
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/async/sonar"

payload = { "request": {
        "model": "sonar-deep-research",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "<string>",
                "content": "<string>"
            }
        ]
    } }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    request: {
      model: 'sonar-deep-research',
      messages: [{role: '<string>', content: '<string>'}]
    }
  })
};

fetch('https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/async/sonar', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/async/sonar",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'request' => [
        'model' => 'sonar-deep-research',
        'messages' => [
                [
                                'role' => '<string>',
                                'content' => '<string>'
                ]
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/async/sonar"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"request\": {\n    \"model\": \"sonar-deep-research\",\n    \"messages\": [\n      {\n        \"role\": \"<string>\",\n        \"content\": \"<string>\"\n      }\n    ]\n  }\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/async/sonar")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"request\": {\n    \"model\": \"sonar-deep-research\",\n    \"messages\": [\n      {\n        \"role\": \"<string>\",\n        \"content\": \"<string>\"\n      }\n    ]\n  }\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/async/sonar")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"request\": {\n    \"model\": \"sonar-deep-research\",\n    \"messages\": [\n      {\n        \"role\": \"<string>\",\n        \"content\": \"<string>\"\n      }\n    ]\n  }\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "id": "<string>",
  "model": "<string>",
  "created_at": 123,
  "started_at": 123,
  "completed_at": 123,
  "response": {
    "id": "<string>",
    "model": "<string>",
    "created": 123,
    "choices": [
      {
        "index": 123,
        "message": {
          "content": "<string>"
        },
        "delta": {
          "content": "<string>"
        }
      }
    ],
    "usage": {
      "prompt_tokens": 123,
      "completion_tokens": 123,
      "total_tokens": 123,
      "cost": {
        "input_tokens_cost": 123,
        "output_tokens_cost": 123,
        "total_cost": 123,
        "reasoning_tokens_cost": 123,
        "request_cost": 123,
        "citation_tokens_cost": 123,
        "search_queries_cost": 123
      },
      "search_context_size": "<string>",
      "citation_tokens": 123,
      "num_search_queries": 123,
      "reasoning_tokens": 123
    },
    "object": "chat.completion",
    "citations": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "search_results": [
      {
        "title": "<string>",
        "url": "<string>",
        "date": "<string>",
        "last_updated": "<string>",
        "snippet": "",
        "source": "web"
      }
    ],
    "images": [
      {
        "image_url": "<string>",
        "origin_url": "<string>",
        "title": "<string>",
        "width": 123,
        "height": 123
      }
    ],
    "related_questions": [
      "<string>"
    ]
  },
  "failed_at": 123,
  "error_message": "<string>"
}

{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "msg": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

For new integrations, use the Agent API - see the migration guide.

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

Request body for creating an asynchronous chat completion

request · ApiChatCompletionsRequest · object · required

The chat completion request to execute asynchronously

Show child attributes

idempotency_key · string | null

Unique key to prevent duplicate requests

Response

200

application/json

Successful Response

id · string · required

Unique identifier for the async request

model · string · required

Model used for the request

created_at · integer · required

Unix timestamp when the request was created

status · enum<string> · required

Current processing status of the request

Available options: CREATED, IN_PROGRESS, COMPLETED, FAILED

started_at · integer | null

Unix timestamp when processing started

completed_at · integer | null

Unix timestamp when processing completed

response · CompletionResponse · object | null

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failed_at · integer | null

Unix timestamp when the request failed (if applicable)

error_message · string | null

Error message if the request failed