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Sonar Small Online


Sonar Small Online is Perplexity logoPerplexity'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 live web search integration, offering efficient real-time information retrieval at low computational cost.
Spec
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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sonar-small-online
$0.280

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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 Small Online12K$0.000$0.280Current
Sonar Medium Chat16K$0.600$1.80Available
Sonar Medium Online12K$0.000$1.80Available
Sonar Reasoning128K$1.00$5.00Available
Sonar Small Chat16K$0.070$0.280Available

Model IDs