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 pricing
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Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity logoPerplexity2.008.00128K8Kcompare (3)24.6#1N/A
Sonar ReasoningPerplexity logoPerplexity1.005.00128K8Kcompare (2)17.9#2N/A
SonarPerplexity logoPerplexity1.001.00128K8Kcompare (3)15.5#3N/A
Sonar ProPerplexity logoPerplexity3.0015.00200K8Kcompare (3)15.2#4N/A
Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta logoMeta0.1000.100131K16Kcompare (13)12.5#510.9#1
Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta logoMeta0.0200.030200K128Kcompare (20)11.8#64.9#2
Llama 2 70B ChatMeta logoMeta0.5000.9004K4Kcompare (7)8.4#7N/A
Mixtral 8x7B InstructMistral AI logoMistral AI0.0700.15033K16Kcompare (9)7.7#8N/A
Mistral 7B InstructMistral AI logoMistral AI0.0100.100127K16Kcompare (9)7.4#9N/A
Code Llama 34B InstructMeta logoMeta0.3500.90016K16Kcompare (3)N/AN/A
Code Llama 70B InstructMeta logoMeta0.7000.90016K16Kcompare (3)N/AN/A
PPLX 70B ChatPerplexity logoPerplexity0.7002.804K4Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
PPLX 70B OnlinePerplexity logoPerplexityN/A2.804K4Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
PPLX 7B ChatPerplexity logoPerplexity0.0700.2808K8Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
PPLX 7B OnlinePerplexity logoPerplexityN/A0.2804K4Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
PPLX Embed 1.0 0.6BPerplexity logoPerplexity0.0040N/A33KN/Acompare (1)N/AN/A
PPLX Embed 1.4BPerplexity logoPerplexity0.030N/A33KN/Acompare (1)N/AN/A
PPLX Embed Context 1 0.6BPerplexity logoPerplexity0.0080N/AN/AN/Acompare (1)N/AN/A
PPLX Embed Context 1.4BPerplexity logoPerplexity0.050N/AN/AN/Acompare (1)N/AN/A
Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity logoPerplexity2.008.00128KN/Acompare (2)N/AN/A
Sonar Medium ChatPerplexity logoPerplexity0.6001.8016K16Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
Sonar Medium OnlinePerplexity logoPerplexityN/A1.8012K12Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
Sonar Small ChatPerplexity logoPerplexity0.0700.28016K16Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
Sonar Small OnlinePerplexity logoPerplexityN/A0.28012K12Kcompare (1)N/AN/A
Tavily SearchTavily logoTavilyN/AN/AN/AN/Acompare (7)N/AN/A