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Sonar

perplexity/sonar

Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval

Source-linkedsonarClosed weightsReleased 2024-01-01
Report data
Context window128K
Maximum output4.096K
Provider offers6
Knowledge cutoff2025-09-01
Capabilities

What this model supports

ReasoningNo
Tool callingNo
Structured outputNo
AttachmentsNo
Temperature controlYes
Open weightsNo
Creator
Perplexity
Family
sonar
Modalities
Text
License
Not documented
Release date
2024-01-01
Model ID
perplexity/sonar
Market availability

Provider pricing

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Providers offering Sonar
ProviderProvider model IDContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached / 1MFeaturesAll pricing
Vercel AI Gatewayperplexity/sonar127K· T ·
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{}
Perplexity Agentperplexity/sonar128K$0.250$2.500$0.062· T ·
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{
  "cache_read": 0.0625,
  "input": 0.25,
  "output": 2.5
}
LLM Gatewaysonar130K$1.000$1.000· · ·
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{
  "input": 1,
  "output": 1
}
Kilo Gatewayperplexity/sonar127.072K$1.000$1.000· · ·
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{
  "input": 1,
  "output": 1
}
OpenRouterperplexity/sonar127.072K$1.000$1.000· · ·
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{
  "input": 1,
  "output": 1
}
Perplexitysonar128K$1.000$1.000· · ·
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{
  "input": 1,
  "output": 1
}
Evidence

Published benchmark results

SciCode vs top 8 models
Fugu
60.1
Fugu Ultra
58.7
Qwen3.7 Max
53.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
42.8
GPT-5-Codex
40.9
Step 3.5 Flash
40.4
Gemini 2.5 Flash
39.4
Sonar
22.9