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Sonar Medium Chat


Sonar Medium Chat is Perplexity logoPerplexity'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 medium-scale Sonar chat model from Perplexity offering conversational AI without live web search integration.
Spec
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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sonar-medium-chat
$0.600$1.80

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Sonar Pro Search200K$3.00$15.00Available
Sonar Deep Research128K$2.00$8.00Available
Sonar Pro200K$3.00$15.00Available
Sonar Reasoning Pro128K$2.00$8.00Available
Sonar128K$1.00$1.00Available
Sonar Medium Chat16K$0.600$1.80Current
Sonar Medium Online12K$0.000$1.80Available
Sonar Reasoning128K$1.00$5.00Available
Sonar Small Chat16K$0.070$0.280Available
Sonar Small Online12K$0.000$0.280Available

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