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Perplexity: Sonar
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...
Specifications
| Provider | Perplexity |
| Model ID | perplexity/sonar |
| Context window | 127K tokens (127,072) |
| Modalities | text + image → text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Router sources | OpenRouter, TrustedRouter, Vercel AI Gateway |
| Released | 2025-01-27 |
| Tracked since | 2026-11-14 |
| Popularity | Not in the ranked set |
| Reasoning | — |
Pricing (per million tokens)
| Variant | Source | API ID | Input | Output | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| standard | OpenRouter | perplexity/sonar | $1.00 | $1.00 | 127K |
| standard | TrustedRouter | perplexity/sonar | $0.264 | $2.64 | — |
| standard | Vercel AI Gateway | perplexity/sonar | $0.25 | $2.50 | 127K |
Recorded price history
| Date | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-14 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 127K |
| 2026-11-14 | $0.264 | $2.64 | — |
| 2026-11-14 | $1.00 | $1.00 | 127K |
Capabilities
Vision (image input)No content storage (attested)No training on inputs (attested)
Trust flags come from TrustedRouter's per-provider attestations.
Supported parameters
frequency_penalty, max_tokens, presence_penalty, temperature, top_k, top_p, web_search_options