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Sonar Medium Chat


Sonar Medium Chat is Perplexity's language model with a 16K context window and up to 16K output tokens, starting at $0.600 / 1M input and $1.80 / 1M output. A mid-sized Sonar chat model from Perplexity offering conversational AI without live web search integration.
Specifications
Canonical IDperplexity-sonar-medium-chat
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorPerplexityPerplexity
Providers
Context Window16K tokens
Max Output16K 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
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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$0.600$1.80

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Sonar Medium Chat16K$0.600$1.80Current
Sonar Medium Online12K$0.000$1.80Available

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Sonar Pro SearchPro200K$3.00$15.00
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Sonar ProPro200K$3.00$15.00
Sonar128K$1.00$1.00
Sonar Reasoning128K$1.00$5.00
Sonar Small ChatSmall16K$0.070$0.280
Sonar Small OnlineSmall12K$0.000$0.280

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