Sonar
Sonar is Perplexity's language model with a 128K context window and up to 114K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.25 / 1M input and $1.00 / 1M output. Perplexity's lightweight web-search-augmented LLM with citation support, designed for fast and affordable question-answering with customizable sources.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
perplexity-sonar | |
| Language | |
| Active | |
| Perplexity | |
| 128K tokens | |
| 114K tokens | |
| ImageText | |
| Text | |
| default | |
| · 2 years ago | |
| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | #396 |
| MMLU-Pro | #234 |
| GPQA | #414 |
| HLE | #406 |
| LiveCodeBench | #224 |
| AIME | #69 |
| Time to First Token | #296 |
| SciCode | #416 |
| MATH-500 | #107 |
| Output TPS | #529 |
Capabilities
Input2/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities3/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search✓
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Cache Read $ / 1M | Cache Write 5m $ / 1M | Web Search $ / request | |
| $1.00 | $1.00 | N/A | N/A | $0.0050 | |
| $0.25 | $2.50 | $0.0625 | N/A | N/A | |
| $1.00 | $1.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.25 | $2.50 | N/A | $0.0625 | N/A | |
Cost Calculator
US Dollar ($)
Preset:
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Pro Search | 200K | $3.00 | $15.00 | Available | |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | Available | |
| Sonar Pro | 200K | $3.00 | $15.00 | Available | |
| Sonar Deep Research | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | Available | |
| Sonar | 128K | $0.250 | $1.00 | Current | |
| Sonar Reasoning | — | 128K | $1.00 | $5.00 | Available |
| Sonar Medium Chat | — | 16K | $0.600 | $1.80 | Available |
| Sonar Medium Online | — | 12K | — | $1.80 | Available |
| Sonar Small Chat | — | 16K | $0.070 | $0.280 | Available |
| Sonar Small Online | — | 12K | — | $0.280 | Available |