Perplexity · Released Jan 1, 2024Sonar
Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $1.00per 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.00per 1M tokens
- Context
- 128K4K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $1.00per million tokens
- Output
- $1.00per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $1.00pricier than 55% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $2.50 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $30.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $300.00 |
Official Perplexity API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Sonar yet.
The details
- Lab
- Perplexity
- Released
- Jan 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Sep 1, 2025
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- 4,096 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
sonaron Perplexity- Availability
- 6 API providerslisted on models.dev
What Perplexity claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
| Benchmark | Score | Setting | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 22.9 percent correct | — | Source |
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About Sonar
How much does Sonar cost?
Sonar costs $1.00 input / $1.00 output per million tokens (official Perplexity API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $1.00 per million tokens, more expensive than 55% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Sonar?
Sonar accepts up to 128,000 tokens per request and can write up to 4,096 tokens in one response.
How good is Sonar?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Sonar yet.
Is Sonar open source?
No. Sonar is proprietary; you use it through Perplexity’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Sonar support?
Sonar accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, does not support tool calling.
When was Sonar released?
Perplexity released Sonar on Jan 1, 2024. Its training data runs to Sep 1, 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Sonar?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.50 / $1.40), Aya Expanse 32B (Cohere, $0.50 / $1.50), Codestral (Mistral AI, $0.30 / $0.90) and Vision Large (Vispark).