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Perplexity

Sonar

Overall 71commercial

Perplexity's fast, cost-efficient Sonar model for basic web search and Q&A. $1/$1 per MTok plus request fee.

Last verified: 2026-03-29Confidence: HighSources: 3
texttool-use
Input price
$0.001/1K tok
Output price
$0.001/1K tok
Context window
128,000
Max output
16,384
Release date
2025-01-21
Access
api, hosted
License
Proprietary / not disclosed
Last verified
2026-03-29

Capability profile

Radar view of the model's practical strengths. This chart is backed by textual summaries below for crawlability.

Benchmark summary

Budget-friendly search-augmented model for high-volume Q&A.

No benchmark series is attached to this model yet. Source links and product metadata are available below.

Strengths

  • • Fast web search
  • • Low token cost
  • • Simple Q&A

Trade-offs

  • • Lower quality than Pro
  • • Basic search only

Crawlable benchmark analysis

Sonar is positioned as a search-augmented api model with published scores that emphasize its practical fit for buyers evaluating the entry.

Published scores highlight reasoning 72/100, coding 60/100, enterprise readiness 80/100, vision 25/100, speed 92/100, and safety 78/100.

Pricing starts at $0.001 per 1K input tokens and $0.001 per 1K output tokens. With a context window of 128,000 tokens, it supports large-document analysis and retrieval workflows.

Benchmark coverage is still limited for this entry, so this section focuses on published metadata and deployment fit.

Sources

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Last verified: 2026-03-29

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