Perplexity
AI company best known for its search assistant. Also offers the Sonar model family via API: Sonar (fast, grounded), Sonar Pro (more capable), and Sonar Reasoning (chain-of-thought). All models include real-time web search grounding by default. Own models · OpenAI-compatible API · Reasoning · Search Grounding · Web Search
Intelligence vs Price
Best value among Perplexity models on this chart: Sonar Reasoning Pro · Sonar Reasoning · Sonar (and 2 more on the dashed frontier). Hover any dot for full pricing, or click a creator in the legend to isolate.
Perplexity models
25 models, 20 with pricingModel | Creator | Input Price, $ | Output Price, $ | Context | Max Output | Inference Providers | Intelligence | Coding | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | 2.00 | 8.00 | 128K | 8K | compare (3) | 24.6#1 | N/A | ||
| Sonar Reasoning | 1.00 | 5.00 | 128K | 8K | compare (2) | 17.9#2 | N/A | ||
| Sonar | 1.00 | 1.00 | 128K | 8K | compare (3) | 15.5#3 | N/A | ||
| Sonar Pro | 3.00 | 15.00 | 200K | 8K | compare (3) | 15.2#4 | N/A | ||
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | 0.100 | 0.100 | 131K | 16K | compare (13) | 12.5#5 | 10.9#1 | ||
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 0.020 | 0.030 | 200K | 128K | compare (20) | 11.8#6 | 4.9#2 | ||
| Llama 2 70B Chat | 0.500 | 0.900 | 4K | 4K | compare (7) | 8.4#7 | N/A | ||
| Mixtral 8x7B Instruct | 0.070 | 0.150 | 33K | 16K | compare (9) | 7.7#8 | N/A | ||
| Mistral 7B Instruct | 0.010 | 0.100 | 127K | 16K | compare (9) | 7.4#9 | N/A | ||
| Code Llama 34B Instruct | 0.350 | 0.900 | 16K | 16K | compare (3) | N/A | N/A | ||
| Code Llama 70B Instruct | 0.700 | 0.900 | 16K | 16K | compare (3) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 70B Chat | 0.700 | 2.80 | 4K | 4K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 70B Online | N/A | 2.80 | 4K | 4K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 7B Chat | 0.070 | 0.280 | 8K | 8K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 7B Online | N/A | 0.280 | 4K | 4K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed 1.0 0.6B | 0.0040 | N/A | 33K | N/A | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed 1.4B | 0.030 | N/A | 33K | N/A | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed Context 1 0.6B | 0.0080 | N/A | N/A | N/A | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed Context 1.4B | 0.050 | N/A | N/A | N/A | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Deep Research | 2.00 | 8.00 | 128K | N/A | compare (2) | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Medium Chat | 0.600 | 1.80 | 16K | 16K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Medium Online | N/A | 1.80 | 12K | 12K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Small Chat | 0.070 | 0.280 | 16K | 16K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Small Online | N/A | 0.280 | 12K | 12K | compare (1) | N/A | N/A | ||
| Tavily Search | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | compare (7) | N/A | N/A |