Sonar is a multimodal AI model in the sonar family with a 128K token context window.

How much does Sonar cost?

Input pricing starts at $1.00 per million tokens. Output is $1.00 per million tokens. Cached input is $0.00 per million tokens. 6 provider(s) currently offer this model.

Where can I access Sonar?

Sonar is developed by Perplexity and available through 6 provider(s), including Vercel AI Gateway, Perplexity Agent. The model has closed weights. Verified: Source-linked

Sonar has a reported throughput of 117.0 tokens per second. Context length: 128000 tokens.

Models / Perplexity

Sonar

perplexity/sonar

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

Input modalitiesT

Output modalitiesT

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
Provider	Provider model ID	Context	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cached / 1M	Features	All pricing
Vercel AI Gateway	`perplexity/sonar`	127K	$0 if offer.cost.input is defined else '—'}}	$0 if offer.cost.output is defined else '—'}}	$0 if offer.cost.cache_read is defined else '—'}}	· T ·	View {}
Perplexity Agent	`perplexity/sonar`	128K	$0.25 if offer.cost.input is defined else '—'}}	$2.5 if offer.cost.output is defined else '—'}}	$0.062 if offer.cost.cache_read is defined else '—'}}	· T ·	View { "cache_read": 0.0625, "input": 0.25, "output": 2.5 }
LLM Gateway	`sonar`	130K	$1 if offer.cost.input is defined else '—'}}	$1 if offer.cost.output is defined else '—'}}	$0 if offer.cost.cache_read is defined else '—'}}	· · ·	View { "input": 1, "output": 1 }
Kilo Gateway	`perplexity/sonar`	127.072K	$1 if offer.cost.input is defined else '—'}}	$1 if offer.cost.output is defined else '—'}}	$0 if offer.cost.cache_read is defined else '—'}}	· · ·	View { "input": 1, "output": 1 }
OpenRouter	`perplexity/sonar`	127.072K	$1 if offer.cost.input is defined else '—'}}	$1 if offer.cost.output is defined else '—'}}	$0 if offer.cost.cache_read is defined else '—'}}	· · ·	View { "input": 1, "output": 1 }
Perplexity	`sonar`	128K	$1 if offer.cost.input is defined else '—'}}	$1 if offer.cost.output is defined else '—'}}	$0 if offer.cost.cache_read is defined else '—'}}	· · ·	View { "input": 1, "output": 1 }