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Text Input $1/M
Text Output $1/M
Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval
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Sonar Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval
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Type Text
Quality Not rated yet
Context window 128,000 tokens
Max output 4,096 tokens
Input price $1.00 / 1M tokens
Output price $1.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read —
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Released Jan 1, 2024
Knowledge cutoff Sep 2025
Takes in Text
Puts out Text
Reasoning No
Tool calling No
Structured output No
File attachments No
Access Paid
License Proprietary
Rarity Common
Set number 268/1044 Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Perplexity’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: docs.perplexity.ai.
How good is it? Public leaderboard scores for Sonar, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.
No public leaderboard lists Sonar yet. Epoch AI and LMArena cover most chat, image, and video models from the big labs; embeddings, speech, and small open models mostly go unrated.
Where to run it 12 providers sell Sonar through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.
Cheapest Eden AI $1.00 in · $1.00 out From the lab Perplexity $1.00 in · $1.00 out API providers Show 2 more providers From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.
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