Perplexity: Sonar

Name: Perplexity: Sonar
Author: OpenRouter

proprietary

Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources.

Context

127K

Max output

114K

Input price

$1/1M tokens

Output price

$1/1M tokens

Capabilities

Show unsupported (6)

Reasoning & Interaction

Tool Calling

Infrastructure

Streaming

Details

Model IDperplexity/sonar

ProviderOpenRouter

CreatorPerplexity

Familysonar

Licenseproprietary

Status—

Typechat

Input modalitiestext, image

Output modalitiestext

Open weight—

Parameters—

Architecture—

Context window127K tokens

Max input—

Max output114K tokens

Reasoning tokens—

Knowledge cutoff—

Release date2025-01-27

Sourceofficial

Pricing

Input

Output

Cache write

—

Cache read

—

Batch in

—

Batch out

—

Family Comparison: sonar

Model	Caps	Perf	Speed	Context	Max out	Pricing
Perplexity: Sonar	S	—	—	127K	114K	$1$1
Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research	R	—	—	128K	115K	$2$8
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro	R	—	—	128K	115K	$2$8
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search	RJJM	—	—	200K	8K	$3$15
Perplexity: Sonar Pro	S	—	—	200K	8K	$3$15

API

GET/v1/models/openrouter/perplexity/sonar