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Perplexity currently says the Sonar API can use a classifier to determine whether web search is needed for a query.
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Sources
- Search Control (Sonar API) | Perplexity Docs
Perplexity · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18
“automatically determines whether a web search is necessary” — 'Search Classifier' section of the Search Control page
- Create Chat Completion
Perplexity · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18
“When true, uses a classifier to determine if web search is needed for the query” — lines 637-641
- Perplexity | Developer Documentation (LlamaIndex)
LlamaIndex · retrieved 2026-08-18
“determine if the search component is necessary” — Perplexity integration code sample and comments
- llama-index-llms-perplexity 0.5.0
PyPI / LlamaIndex · retrieved 2026-08-18
“using model "sonar-pro" and enabling search classifier so that the API can intelligently decide if a search is needed” — lines 101-104
Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z