Perplexity: Sonar

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

Reasoning & Interaction
Tool Calling
Infrastructure
Streaming

Details

Model IDperplexity/sonar
Provider OpenRouter
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 date
Sourceofficial

Pricing

Input
$1
Output
$1
Cache write
—
Cache read
—
Batch in
—
Batch out
—

Family Comparison: sonar

ModelContextMax outPricing
Perplexity: Sonar127K114K$1$1
Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research128K115K$2$8
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro128K115K$2$8
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search200K8K$3$15
Perplexity: Sonar Pro200K8K$3$15

API

GET/v1/models/openrouter/perplexity/sonar

Perplexity: Sonar

perplexity/sonar

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

Changes · 4 entries
perplexity/sonarupdateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
max_output_tokens114364
perplexity/sonarupdatee3d7dedAug 31, 2026, 04:13 AM
max_output_tokens114364
perplexity/sonarupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
familysonar
model_typechat
release_date2025-01-27
taglineSonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use...
perplexity/sonarcreate7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM