Sonar Medium Online is Perplexity's language model with a 12K context window and up to 12K output tokens, starting at $1.80 / 1M output. A mid-sized Sonar model with real-time web search, balancing response quality and retrieval capability for online question-answering.
Specifications
Canonical IDperplexity-sonar-medium-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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Output
$ / 1M
Request
$ / request
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$1.80$0.0050

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Sonar Medium Online—12K—$1.80Current
Sonar Medium Chat—16K$0.600$1.80Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Sonar Pro SearchPro200K$3.00$15.00
Sonar Deep Research—128K$2.00$8.00
Sonar Reasoning ProPro128K$2.00$8.00
Sonar ProPro200K$3.00$15.00
Sonar—128K$0.250$1.00
Sonar Reasoning——128K$1.00$5.00
Sonar Small ChatSmall—16K$0.070$0.280
Sonar Small OnlineSmall—12K—$0.280

Model IDs

perplexity-sonar-medium-online
perplexity/sonar-medium-online