# Get Async Chat Completion

**GET** `/v1/async/sonar/{api_request}`

Retrieve the response for a given asynchronous chat completion request.

Base URL: `https://api.perplexity.ai`

## Authorization

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `HTTPBearer` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` | — |

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `api_request` | `string` | Yes | — |

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `200` | Successful Response | `application/json` |
| `422` | Validation Error | `application/json` |

### Example response: 200 — Successful Response

```json
{
  "completed_at": 0,
  "created_at": 0,
  "error_message": null,
  "failed_at": 0,
  "id": "string",
  "model": "string",
  "response": {
    "choices": [
      {
        "delta": {
          "content": [
            {
              "file_name": null,
              "file_url": {},
              "type": "file_url"
            }
          ],
          "role": "assistant"
        },
        "finish_reason": "length",
        "index": 0,
        "message": {
          "content": [
            {
              "file_name": null,
              "file_url": {},
              "type": "file_url"
            }
          ],
          "role": "assistant"
        }
      }
    ],
    "citations": [
      "string"
    ],
    "created": 0,
    "id": "string",
    "images": [
      {
        "height": 0,
        "image_url": "string",
        "origin_url": "string",
        "title": "string",
        "width": 0
      }
    ],
    "model": "string",
    "object": "chat.completion",
    "related_questions": [
      "string"
    ],
    "search_results": [
      {
        "date": null,
        "last_updated": null,
        "snippet": "",
        "source": "web",
        "title": "string",
        "url": "string"
      }
    ],
    "usage": {
      "citation_tokens": 0,
      "completion_tokens": 0,
      "cost": {
        "citation_tokens_cost": null,
        "input_tokens_cost": 0,
        "output_tokens_cost": 0,
        "reasoning_tokens_cost": null,
        "request_cost": null,
        "search_queries_cost": null,
        "total_cost": 0
      },
      "num_search_queries": 0,
      "prompt_tokens": 0,
      "reasoning_tokens": 0,
      "search_context_size": null,
      "total_tokens": 0
    }
  },
  "started_at": 0,
  "status": "COMPLETED"
}
```

### Example response: 422 — Validation Error

```json
{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        0
      ],
      "msg": "string",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Related pages

- [Add a skill revision](./updateskill.md)
- [Cancel Agent Response](./cancelagentresponse.md)
- [Create a skill](./createskill.md)
- [Create Agent Response](./createagent.md)
- [Create Async Chat Completion](./create_async_chat_completions_async_chat_completions_post.md)
- [Create Chat Completion](./chat_completions_chat_completions_post.md)
- [Create Contextualized Embeddings](./contextualized_embeddings_v1_contextualizedembeddings_post.md)
- [Create Embeddings](./embeddings_v1_embeddings_post.md)
- [Delete a skill](./deleteskill.md)
- [Download Agent Response File](./downloadagentfile.md)

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