Sonar
Efficient
Cheap default Sonar. Web-grounded with citations at the lowest Perplexity price point.
Sonar is a efficient AI model from Perplexity. It costs $1.000 per million input tokens and $1.000 per million output tokens (blended $1.000/M), with a 127,000-token context window.
INPUT
$1.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$1.000/M
per million output tokens
CONTEXT
127,000
tokens
What it is good at
- Cheap web-grounded chat
- Citations included
- Fast
Typical use cases
- Bulk research queries
- Cheap fact-grounded chat
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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How much does Sonar cost?
Sonar costs $1.000 per million input tokens and $1.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $1.000 per million tokens.
What is Sonar's context window?
Sonar supports up to 127,000 tokens of context in a single request.
What is Sonar best for?
Sonar is well suited to Cheap web-grounded chat, Citations included and Fast.
Who makes Sonar?
Sonar is developed and served by Perplexity.