Using Sonar Pro on Vercel AI Gateway

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call perplexity/sonar-pro — see the documentation for request format.

Code Examples

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar-pro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

About Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK. API details: API key via Authorization: Bearer <AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY>. Key from Vercel dashboard. Free $5/month credit; paid tier is provider list price with zero markup. BYOK (bring-your-own-key) also supported with no markup or fee. Model IDs use {provider-owner}/{model-name} — e.g., anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, openai/gpt-5.

Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK.

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Capabilities

About Sonar Pro

Advanced Perplexity search model with 200K context window. Provides double the citations of Sonar. Supports Pro Search mode (sonar-pro-search). Request fees: $6-$14/1K requests (Low/Medium/High).