Enterprise AI with Perplexity in Turkey - The Unified AI API Platform

What Is Perplexity Perplexity?

About the technology and the company behind the model

Perplexity AI was founded in San Francisco in 2022 by researchers who came out of OpenAI, Google and Meta. The company popularized the "answer engine": instead of ten blue links, you get a direct answer with citations. By fusing its own search infrastructure with large language models, Perplexity opened that technology to developers through the Sonar API — every response is grounded in a real-time web search and ships with source links.

The current Sonar lineup has four members. The flagship, Sonar Pro, tackles complex questions with a 200K-token context window and multiple searches per query, reaching an F-score of 0.858 on the SimpleQA factuality benchmark in Perplexity's published results. Sonar Reasoning Pro pairs live search with step-by-step reasoning, while Sonar Deep Research autonomously runs dozens of searches and reads hundreds of sources to produce expert-grade reports — scoring 21.1% on Humanity's Last Exam. The lightweight Sonar covers everyday search-grounded queries at the best speed-to-cost ratio.

Onysoft AI Gateway gives you Perplexity API access from Turkey without a foreign credit card or VPN. On the platform of Izmir-based Onysoft Veri Merkezi A.S. you pay as you go from a Turkish lira balance, with Perplexity API pricing converted at the current central bank (TCMB) rate and shown live in TL on this page, plus a corporate e-invoice for every top-up. KVKK-compliant infrastructure and 24/7 support in Turkish make it enterprise-ready. Your existing OpenAI SDK code works with a single base_url change, and you can try every Sonar model instantly in the Playground — alongside 708+ other models behind one API.

As AI shifts from models that "know" to systems that search and verify, web-connected models are becoming a standard layer of the enterprise stack. Perplexity pioneered that layer; Onysoft brings it to teams in Turkey with a one-line code change.

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Provider

Perplexity

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Founded

2022

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Headquarters

San Francisco, USA

Perplexity Performance Metrics

Results from industry-standard benchmark tests

SimpleQA (Sonar Pro) Factual Accuracy (F-score) 85.8

SimpleQA (Deep Research) Factual Accuracy in Deep Research 93.9

Humanity's Last Exam Deep Research — Expert-Level Questions 21.1

MMLU Multi-Domain Knowledge 78.0

* Benchmark results are based on data published by the respective providers and may be updated.

Why Choose Perplexity?

Web-Connected AI That Cites Its Sources

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Web-Grounded Answers

Every request triggers a real-time web search. Answers are never limited to training data — they reflect the web as it is right now.

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Source Citations

Every answer ships with the URLs it drew from. Verifying or digging deeper takes one click, and hallucination risk drops sharply.

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Real-Time Freshness

Ideal for news, prices, regulations and live data. The knowledge-cutoff problem of classic LLMs simply does not apply to Sonar.

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Reasoning with Search

Sonar Reasoning Pro combines live web search with step-by-step chain-of-thought. It excels at comparisons, analysis and multi-step questions.

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Autonomous Deep Research

Sonar Deep Research runs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources and writes expert-grade reports — compressing hours of research into minutes.

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OpenAI-Compatible API

Your existing OpenAI SDK code works with a single base_url change. Use it from Turkey with a TL balance and live TL pricing, and try it instantly in the Playground.

Perplexity Models and Pricing

Perplexity models available in TL through Onysoft AI Gateway

Recommended

Sonar Pro

Flagship

The flagship search model. 200K context, multiple searches per query and twice the citations — built for complex, multi-source questions.

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arrow_downward Input: ₺0,21 / 1K tokens

arrow_upward Output: ₺1,07 / 1K tokens

Sonar Reasoning Pro

Combines live web search with step-by-step reasoning. For analysis, comparisons and multi-step problem solving.

perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro play_circle Try

arrow_downward Input: ₺0,14 / 1K tokens

arrow_upward Output: ₺0,57 / 1K tokens

Sonar Deep Research

Most Powerful

An autonomous deep-research agent: runs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources and writes expert-grade reports.

perplexity/sonar-deep-research play_circle Try

arrow_downward Input: ₺0,14 / 1K tokens

arrow_upward Output: ₺0,57 / 1K tokens

Sonar

Budget

Fast, budget-friendly search-grounded model for everyday queries and high-volume workloads that need fresh information.

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arrow_downward Input: ₺0,07 / 1K tokens

arrow_upward Output: ₺0,07 / 1K tokens

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Perplexity Use Cases

What businesses in Turkey can build with Perplexity

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Market & Competitive Intelligence

Track competitor moves, market trends and industry news with cited, up-to-the-minute answers. Base your reports on today's data, not last year's.

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Content & SEO Research

Power blog posts and articles with fresh, cited information. With Deep Research, get a comprehensive topic brief from a single request.

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Regulatory & Compliance Monitoring

Monitor legislation, regulatory changes and compliance requirements with cited sources, and deliver verifiable summaries to legal teams.

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Academic Research

Search-grounded AI for literature reviews, patent research and scientific source discovery. Every finding arrives with its citation attached.

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Assistants with Live Knowledge

Let your chatbots and assistants answer with live web data — promotions, availability, breaking news — free of any knowledge-cutoff barrier.

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Financial Research & News Analysis

Scan company news, market developments and economic data in real time, and generate cited briefings for investment and strategy teams.

Which Sectors Does Perplexity Serve?

Sectors using Perplexity through Onysoft AI Gateway

Research Media Legal Finance Marketing Academia Consulting E-Commerce

How to Get Started with Perplexity?

Start using Perplexity models in your project in 3 steps

1

Create an Account

Sign up to Onysoft AI Gateway for free. Sign in instantly with your email address or your GitHub/Google account. Your API key is generated automatically.

2

Add Balance

Add as much balance as you like in Turkish Lira. You can pay by bank transfer/EFT, credit card or corporate invoice. Transparent TL pricing with the current TCMB exchange rate.

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Start Using the API

Thanks to our OpenAI-compatible API endpoint, access Perplexity models without changing your existing code. Just change the base_url and api_key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="sk-ony-...",
    base_url="https://api.onysoft.com/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar-pro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Merhaba!"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
    apiKey: 'sk-ony-...',
    baseURL: 'https://api.onysoft.com/v1'
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
    model: 'perplexity/sonar-pro',
    messages: [{role: 'user', content: 'Merhaba!'}]
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

curl https://api.onysoft.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-ony-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Merhaba!"}]
  }'

$ch = curl_init('https://api.onysoft.com/v1/chat/completions');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'Authorization: Bearer sk-ony-...',
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
        'model' => 'perplexity/sonar-pro',
        'messages' => [['role' => 'user', 'content' => 'Merhaba!']]
    ]),
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_POST => true
]);
$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
echo $response->choices[0]->message->content;

Why Use Perplexity with Onysoft?

The advantages of choosing Onysoft AI Gateway over the Perplexity API directly

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Pay in Turkish Lira

No foreign credit card needed. Transparent pricing in TL with the current TCMB exchange rate. Bank transfer, credit card or corporate invoice.

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Invoicing in Turkey

As a company based in Turkey, we issue e-invoices and e-archive invoices. Your accounting processes run smoothly.

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One API, All Models

Access 370+ models including Perplexity just by changing the base_url. OpenAI SDK compatible.

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24/7 Support in Turkish

Our Turkish-speaking technical support team is always with you. Integration help and issue resolution.

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KVKK Compliant

Data processing policies aligned with Turkish regulations. Enterprise data security standards.

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Cost Optimization

Switch easily between different models as your needs change. Optimize your budget.

Frequently Asked Questions About Perplexity

What people wonder about Perplexity and Onysoft AI Gateway

How is Perplexity Sonar different from a normal LLM? expand_more

A regular LLM answers only from its training data and is stuck at its knowledge cutoff. Sonar models run a real-time web search on every request, so answers reflect today's news, prices and regulations — and come with source URLs. In short, Sonar is an LLM fused with a search engine.

How can I access the Perplexity API from Turkey? expand_more

Open an Onysoft AI Gateway account and top up a Turkish lira balance — no foreign credit card or VPN needed. Point your client at https://api.onysoft.com/v1 as the base_url and start sending requests with model IDs like perplexity/sonar-pro right away.

How does Turkish lira pricing work? expand_more

Sonar models are billed per token on a pay-as-you-go basis — no subscription, no commitment. Dollar-based unit costs are converted to TL at the current TCMB exchange rate and shown live on this page; usage is simply deducted from your TL balance.

What about KVKK compliance and data privacy? expand_more

Onysoft is operated by Izmir-based Onysoft Veri Merkezi A.S. and follows processes compliant with KVKK, Turkey's data protection law. Requests sent through the API are not used to train models, and our 24/7 support team can help with corporate data-processing agreements.

Which Sonar model should I pick, and when? expand_more

Use the budget-friendly Sonar for everyday, high-volume queries and the flagship Sonar Pro for complex, multi-source questions. Choose Sonar Reasoning Pro when you need step-by-step analysis, and Sonar Deep Research for comprehensive reports and literature reviews.

Does my existing OpenAI SDK code work with Sonar? expand_more

Yes. Set the base_url to https://api.onysoft.com/v1 and swap the model name for an ID like perplexity/sonar-pro. The standard chat completions flow, including streaming, works as-is — and source links are returned with each response.

What are the context windows and limits? expand_more

The flagship Sonar Pro offers a 200K-token context window, while Sonar, Sonar Reasoning Pro and Sonar Deep Research support 128K tokens. That is ample for workloads that combine long documents with fresh web information in a single request.

What makes the flagship Sonar Pro special? expand_more

Sonar Pro runs multiple searches per query and returns roughly twice as many citations as standard Sonar. In Perplexity's published results it reaches an F-score of 0.858 on the SimpleQA factuality benchmark, making it the family's best all-rounder for complex, multi-step research questions.

Can I get a corporate invoice? expand_more

Yes — every balance top-up comes with a corporate e-invoice issued with your company details. Because billing is in Turkish lira, your accounting team books the expense directly, with no cross-border payment declarations or exchange-rate headaches.

How are citations returned in the API response? expand_more

Each response includes the list of source URLs it drew from, and the numbered references in the text map to that list. This lets you render answers in your app with clickable, footnoted sources.

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