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Perplexity: Sonar

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Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features optimized for speed.

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In / Out Price
$1 / $1per 1M
Context
127K
Released
Jan 27, 2025
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Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Perplexity: Sonar (Artificial Analysis)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisSonar GPQA Diamond47.1%
Artificial AnalysisSonar HLE4.9%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
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OpenRouter Availability
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Frequently asked questions

Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features optimized for speed.

Sonar costs $1.00/M input tokens and $1.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Web Search at $5.00/1K calls.

Sonar has a 127,072 token context window.

No. Sonar does not accept tools, so function calling is unavailable. It does not support response_format, so JSON output is not enforced.

Sonar accepts text and images as input and returns text.

Sonar Pro Search, Sonar Reasoning Pro, Sonar Pro and 1 more are other text models from Perplexity.

Sonar was released on January 27, 2025.

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