Rate Limits and Usage Tiers

We follow the usage tier system below to set rate limits. You can check your usage tier by going to your API settings page.

Usage Tiers

Tier	Credit Purchase (all time)
Tier 0	-
Tier 1	$50
Tier 2	$250
Tier 3	$500
Tier 4	$1000
Tier 5	$5000

The tiers are based on cumulative purchases on a given account

Rate Limits and Features

Tier 0

Model	Requests per minute (RPM)	Features
sonar-deep-research	5	related questions, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning-pro	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-pro	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
r1-1776	50	structured outputs
POST /async/chat/completions	5	async chat completions
GET /async/chat/completions	3000	async chat completions status
GET /async/chat/completions/{request_id}	6000	async chat completion results

Model	Requests per minute (RPM)	Features
sonar-deep-research	5	related questions, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning-pro	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-pro	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
r1-1776	50	structured outputs
POST /async/chat/completions	5	async chat completions
GET /async/chat/completions	3000	async chat completions status
GET /async/chat/completions/{request_id}	6000	async chat completion results

Model	Requests per minute (RPM)	Features
sonar-deep-research	10	related questions, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning-pro	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-pro	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar	50	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
r1-1776	50	structured outputs
POST /async/chat/completions	10	async chat completions
GET /async/chat/completions	3000	async chat completions status
GET /async/chat/completions/{request_id}	6000	async chat completion results

Model	Requests per minute (RPM)	Features
sonar-deep-research	20	related questions, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning-pro	500	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning	500	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-pro	500	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar	500	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
r1-1776	500	structured outputs
POST /async/chat/completions	20	async chat completions
GET /async/chat/completions	3000	async chat completions status
GET /async/chat/completions/{request_id}	6000	async chat completion results

Model	Requests per minute (RPM)	Features
sonar-deep-research	40	related questions, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning-pro	1000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning	1000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-pro	1000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar	1000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
r1-1776	1000	structured outputs
POST /async/chat/completions	40	async chat completions
GET /async/chat/completions	3000	async chat completions status
GET /async/chat/completions/{request_id}	6000	async chat completion results

Model	Requests per minute (RPM)	Features
sonar-deep-research	60	related questions, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning-pro	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-pro	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
r1-1776	2000	structured outputs
POST /async/chat/completions	60	async chat completions
GET /async/chat/completions	3000	async chat completions status
GET /async/chat/completions/{request_id}	6000	async chat completion results

Model	Requests per minute (RPM)	Features
sonar-deep-research	100	related questions, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning-pro	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-reasoning	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar-pro	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
sonar	2000	images, related questions, search domain filter, structured outputs
r1-1776	2000	structured outputs
POST /async/chat/completions	100	async chat completions
GET /async/chat/completions	3000	async chat completions status
GET /async/chat/completions/{request_id}	6000	async chat completion results

1. r1-1776 is an offline chat model that does not use our search subsystem so image search, related questions and search domain filter aren’t available for it
2. Rate Limit forsonar-deep-research increases as you move up usage tiers