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This guide provides a comprehensive reference for diagnosing and fixing common errors and exceptions encountered when interacting with the Perplexity Sonar API. Use this when troubleshooting API integration issues, handling specific HTTP status codes (like 401, 429, 402), or debugging failed requests. It covers best practices for rate limiting, key validation, and implementing robust error handling logic.

This workflow executes a single-query search using the Perplexity Sonar model, ensuring all returned answers are web-grounded and accompanied by inline citations. It is essential for building high-trust applications, fact-checking tools, or any system requiring verifiable, real-time information retrieval. The process includes API interaction, detailed response parsing (answer, citations, search results), and formatting the output into a usable, source-linked format.

A comprehensive workflow utilizing the Perplexity Sonar API for advanced, multi-turn research. It systematically decomposes broad topics into focused sub-queries, executes batch queries while maintaining context continuity, deduplicates citations, and synthesizes all findings into a structured, comprehensive research document. Ideal for academic research, market analysis, and generating detailed investment or industry briefs.

This guide provides advanced strategies for developers to significantly reduce Perplexity Sonar API billing costs. It covers key techniques including model routing (selecting the right model by query type), setting maximum output tokens, implementing robust query caching, and utilizing domain filters to minimize per-request charges. Essential for building cost-effective, high-volume AI applications.

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for deploying applications powered by the Perplexity Sonar API. It covers setup for major cloud platforms like Vercel, Google Cloud Run, and Docker. Users can deploy production-ready endpoints, manage required secrets, implement edge functions, and utilize caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis) to ensure high availability and performance in production environments.

This guide details how to implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Perplexity API in enterprise environments. Since Perplexity lacks native RBAC, the solution involves building a middleware gateway. This gateway enforces granular policies, including team-specific API key usage, model restriction (e.g., limiting access to 'sonar' only), budget caps, rate limiting, and mandatory search domain filtering for compliance and security.

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for installing and configuring the Perplexity Sonar API authentication. It details setting up the necessary environment variables and using the standard OpenAI client library (for both Node.js and Python) to connect to Perplexity's API endpoint. Learning this process is essential for developers starting a new Perplexity integration, setting up API keys, or verifying API connectivity.

A comprehensive guide to identifying and avoiding common integration mistakes and anti-patterns when using the Perplexity Sonar API. It covers critical best practices such as correctly handling citations, setting maximum token limits, utilizing recency filters, and optimizing API calls to ensure cost efficiency and data accuracy. Essential for code review and developer onboarding.

This skill provides comprehensive guidance on load testing and capacity planning for the Perplexity Sonar API. Users learn how to simulate high traffic volumes, respecting strict rate limits (like 50 RPM), benchmark latency, and estimate operational costs. It is essential for performance engineering, capacity architecture design, or stress testing APIs at scale.

A comprehensive guide and implementation for setting up a fast, cost-effective local development loop for the Perplexity Sonar API. It includes generating type-safe client wrappers, utilizing fixtures for reliable mocking, and establishing a complete test suite with hot-reloading capabilities. This ensures stable development and manages high API call costs during iteration.

This guide details the process of migrating search and LLM functionalities from legacy APIs (Google CSE, Bing, SerpAPI) to Perplexity Sonar. It demonstrates how to utilize the Strangler Fig pattern to build a robust adapter layer. The primary benefit is consolidating a complex, multi-step pipeline (Search -> Raw Results -> LLM Summarization) into a single, efficient API call, ensuring automatic citation handling and streamlined development.

This skill provides a comprehensive guide to configuring the Perplexity Sonar API across distinct operational environments (development, staging, and production). It details how to manage environment-specific API keys, enforce tailored rate limits, select appropriate models (e.g., sonar vs. sonar-pro), and implement cost optimization strategies. Use this when migrating or integrating Perplexity search functionality into a multi-tier, production-grade application architecture.