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Perplexity: Sonar

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

Source-linked sonar Closed weights Released 2024-01-01
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InputT
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Input price$1/M
Output price$1/M
Context128K
Max output4.096K
Providers9
Inference availability

Providers

Provider-specific identifiers, limits, and listed prices per million tokens. Every row links back to the provider's own documentation.

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Providers offering Sonar
ProviderProvider model IDContextMax outputInputOutputCache readCapabilitiesDocs
Vercel AI Gateway perplexity/sonar 127K 8K — — — Tools Docs ↗
Perplexity Agent perplexity/sonar 128K 8.192K $0.25 $2.5 $0.062 Tools Docs ↗
Perplexity sonar 128K 4.096K $1 $1 — Not listed Docs ↗
DevPass (LLM Gateway) sonar 130K 4.096K $1 $1 — Not listed Docs ↗
Opper perplexity/sonar 128K 4.096K $1 $1 — Not listed Docs ↗
Kilo Gateway perplexity/sonar 127.072K 114.364K $1 $1 — Not listed Docs ↗
Eden AI perplexityai/sonar 127.072K 4.096K $1 $1 — Not listed Docs ↗
OpenRouter perplexity/sonar 127.072K 114.364K $1 $1 — Not listed Docs ↗
LLM Gateway perplexity/sonar 130K 4.096K $1 $1 — JSON Docs ↗

Capability badges appear only where the provider catalog explicitly lists support. A blank cell means the source is silent, not that the feature is absent.

Listed rates

Price across providers

Input price per million tokens as published by each provider. Bars are drawn from listed rates only — no traffic weighting, since the catalog observes no requests.

Lowest input $0.25/M

Across 8 priced providers

Median input $1/M

Midpoint of listed rates

Highest input $1/M

4.0× the lowest listed rate

Output range $1 – $2.5

Per million output tokens

Perplexity Agent $0.25/MLowest
Perplexity $1/M
DevPass (LLM Gateway) $1/M
Opper $1/M
Kilo Gateway $1/M
Eden AI $1/M
OpenRouter $1/M
LLM Gateway $1/M
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Context limits also differ by provider, from 127K to 130K tokens. Compare the provider table above before choosing on price alone.

Specification

Capabilities

Recorded from the source catalog and provider listings.

× Reasoning No
× Tool calling No
✓ Structured output Yes
× Attachments No
× Vision input No
× Open weights No
Creator
Perplexity
Model family
sonar
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09-01
License
Not documented
Release date
2024-01-01
Model ID
perplexity/sonar
Published evaluations

Benchmarks

Every result stays attached to its source, version, metric and harness. Scores from different versions are never merged, and the profile below plots each benchmark against its own population rather than on a shared scale.

Benchmark registry
SciCode percent correct · 2026-03-11 Source ↗
SciCode #23 of 27

Each strip shows every published score for that benchmark, with this model marked. The lighter shape behind the ticks is the density of results, and the dashed line is the median.

Cost against capability

Price and performance

Listed input price plotted against SciCode, the benchmark with the widest published coverage that this model appears in.

0 23 45 $0.1 $1 $10 Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct — $0.45/M, score 27.8 Qwen3 Max — $1.2/M, score 38.3 DeepSeek-R1 — $0.7/M, score 35.7 Gemini 2.5 Flash — $0.3/M, score 39.4 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite — $0.1/M, score 19.3 Gemini 2.5 Pro — $1.25/M, score 42.8 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct — $0.1/M, score 26.0 Devstral 2 — $0.4/M, score 33.1 Mistral Large 2.1 — $2/M, score 29.2 Mistral Large 3 — $0.5/M, score 36.2 Mistral Medium 3 — $0.4/M, score 33.1 Mistral Small 4 — $0.15/M, score 38.0 GPT-4 Turbo — $10/M, score 31.9 GPT-4o (2024-05-13) — $5/M, score 30.9 GPT-4o (2024-08-06) — $2.5/M, score 33.1 GPT-4o (2024-11-20) — $2.5/M, score 33.3 GPT-4o mini — $0.15/M, score 22.9 GPT-5-Codex — $1.1/M, score 40.9 Sonar — $1/M, score 22.9 Sonar Pro — $3/M, score 22.6 Step 3.5 Flash — $0.1/M, score 40.4 Step 3.5 Flash 2603 — $0.1/M, score 38.5 Step 3.7 Flash — $0.185/M, score 40.0 GLM-4.5 — $0.6/M, score 34.8 GLM-4.5-Air — $0.2/M, score 30.6 GLM-4.5V — $0.6/M, score 22.1 GLM-4.6 — $0.6/M, score 38.4 Sonar Input price per million tokens (log scale) Percent correct

The stepped line is the efficient frontier: at each price, the best score available for that money or less. A model sitting on it is not being beaten by anything cheaper. Price is log-scaled because listed rates span four orders of magnitude. Only models with both a listed price and a score on this benchmark can appear.

Catalog activity

Change log

Field-level changes detected between successful source imports.

Full change log
Max Output Tokens114364 → 4096
Context Length127072 → 128000
Max Output Tokens4096 → 114364
Context Length128000 → 127072
Max Output Tokens114364 → 4096
Context Length127072 → 128000
Max Output Tokens4096 → 114364
Context Length128000 → 127072
Max Output Tokens114364 → 4096
Context Length127072 → 128000
Provenance

Sources & verification

Every figure on this page traces back to one of these records.

Methodology
Last verified
Sep 11, 2026
Status
Source-linked
Confidence
Medium
Catalog source
Models.dev
Models.devcatalog ↗Vercel AI Gateway documentationprovider documentation ↗Perplexity Agent documentationprovider documentation ↗Perplexity documentationprovider documentation ↗LLM Gateway documentationprovider documentation ↗Opper documentationprovider documentation ↗Kilo Gateway documentationprovider documentation ↗Eden AI documentationprovider documentation ↗OpenRouter documentationprovider documentation ↗SciCodethird-party ↗
Public API

Use this record

Fetch the complete source-linked model record. No key, no account, no rate-limited tier.

API documentation
Endpoint
GET https://model.kyssta.lol/api/v1/models/perplexity/sonar
curl
curl "https://model.kyssta.lol/api/v1/models/perplexity/sonar"
Common questions

Frequently asked questions

Answered directly from the stored record — nothing here is generated beyond the catalog's own fields.

What is Sonar?

Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval. It is published by Perplexity and catalogued here from Models.dev.

How much does Sonar cost?

Listed input pricing starts at $0.25 per million tokens from Perplexity Agent, rising to $1 across 8 listed providers.

What is the context length of Sonar?

Sonar accepts up to 128K tokens of context and returns up to 4.096K output tokens.

Does Sonar support tool calling and structured output?

Provider catalogs list support for structured output.

Which providers serve Sonar?

9 providers list this model: Vercel AI Gateway, Perplexity Agent, Perplexity, DevPass (LLM Gateway), Opper, Kilo Gateway and 3 more.

Are the weights for Sonar open?

No. This model is served through hosted APIs only.

When was Sonar released?

The catalog records a release date of 2024-01-01, last verified Sep 11, 2026.

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