We follow the usage tier system below to set rate limits and give access to beta features for our APIs. You can check your usage tier by going to your API settings page.

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Usage Tiers

TierCredit 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

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Rate Limits and Beta Features

ModelRequests per minute (RPM)Beta Features
sonar-deep-research5-
sonar-reasoning-pro50-
sonar-reasoning50-
sonar-pro50-
sonar50-
r1-177650-
  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-researchincreases to 100rpm in Tier - 5
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