sonar

proprietary

A lightweight, cost-effective search model optimized for quick, grounded answers with real-time web search.

Context
128K
Input price
$1/1M tokens
Output price
$1/1M tokens

Capabilities

Reasoning & Interaction
Tool Calling
Infrastructure
Streaming

Details

Provider Perplexity
Creator perplexity
Familysonar
Licenseproprietary
Status—
Typechat
Input modalitiestext
Output modalitiestext
Open weightNo
Parameters—
Architecture—
Context window128K tokens
Max input—
Max output—
Reasoning tokens—
Knowledge cutoff—
Release date—
Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling
Call external functions and APIs

Pricing

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

Family Comparison: sonar

ModelContextMax outPricing
perplexity/sonar——$0.25$2.5
sonar128K—$1$1
sonar-deep-research128K—$2$8
sonar-reasoning-pro128K—$2$8
sonar-pro200K—$3$15

API

GET/v1/models/perplexity/sonar

sonar

A lightweight, cost-effective search model optimized for quick, grounded answers with real-time web search.

Changes · 5 entries
sonarupdateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
page_urlhttps://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar→https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar-deep-r...
sonarupdate1a66bb0Sep 29, 2026, 06:40 AM
page_urlhttps://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar→https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar-deep-r...
sonarupdateb301ebeMar 23, 2026, 11:47 PM
descriptionA lightweight, cost-effective search model optimized for ...
context_window128000
taglineFast answers with reliable search results
page_urlhttps://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar
modalitiesinput["text"]output["text"]
sonarupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
model_typechat
licenseproprietary
open_weightno
tools["function_calling"]
sonarcreate7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM