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Sonar Small Online


Sonar Small Online is Perplexity's language model with a 12K context window and up to 12K output tokens, starting at $N/A / 1M input and $0.280 / 1M output. A compact Sonar model with real-time web search, providing fast and affordable online question-answering at small scale.
Specifications
Canonical IDperplexity-sonar-small-online
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorPerplexityPerplexity
Providers
Context Window12K tokens
Max Output12K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Output
$ / 1M
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$0.280

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Sonar Small Online12K$0.000$0.280Current
Sonar Small Chat16K$0.070$0.280Available

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Sonar Pro SearchPro200K$3.00$15.00
Sonar Deep Research128K$2.00$8.00
Sonar Reasoning ProPro128K$2.00$8.00
Sonar ProPro200K$3.00$15.00
Sonar128K$1.00$1.00
Sonar Reasoning128K$1.00$5.00
Sonar Medium ChatMedium16K$0.600$1.80
Sonar Medium OnlineMedium12K$0.000$1.80

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