Sonar Small Chat
Sonar Small Chat is a text model from 
Perplexity with a context window of 16K tokens and max output of 16K tokens. Pricing starts at 0.07 per million input tokens and 0.28 per million output tokens.
Capabilities
✗ Vision✗ Function Calling✗ Reasoning✗ JSON Schema✗ System Messages✗ Web Search✗ Prompt Caching✗ Audio Input✗ Audio Output
Specifications
| Model Key | perplexity/sonar-small-chat |
| Provider | Perplexity |
| Provider ID | perplexity |
| Mode | Text |
| Canonical Name | sonar-small-chat |
| Context Window | 16K tokens |
| Max Output | 16K tokens |
Pricing
| Type | Per 1K Tokens | Per 1M Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input Tokens | 0.000070 | 0.070 |
| Output Tokens | 0.000280 | 0.280 |
Benchmarks
No benchmark data is available for this model.
All Variants
All available versions, regions, and API endpoints for Sonar Small Chat.
Model Key | Provider | Mode | Input Price, $ | Output Price, $ | Context | Max Output | Vision | Functions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| perplexity/sonar-small-chat | Perplexity | Text | 0.070 | 0.280 | 16K | 16K | no | no |
| perplexity/sonar-small-online | Perplexity | Text | N/A | 0.280 | 12K | 12K | no | no |