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Sonar

Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval

Source-linked sonar Closed weights Released 2024-01-01
API data Report
Input modalitiesT
Output modalitiesT
Input price$1/1M tokens
Output price$1/1M tokens
Context window128K
Max output4.096K
Overview

Capabilities and specifications

× Reasoning No
× Tool calling No
? Structured output Unknown
× Attachments No
× Vision input No
× Open weights No
Creator
Perplexity
Model family
sonar
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09-01
License
Not documented
Release date
2024-01-01
Model ID
perplexity/sonar
Inference availability

Provider pricing and availability

Provider-specific identifiers, limits, and prices per million tokens.

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Providers offering Sonar
ProviderProvider model IDContextInputOutputCache readCapabilitiesSource
Vercel AI Gateway perplexity/sonar 127K Not listed Not listed - Tools Docs
Perplexity Agent perplexity/sonar 128K $0.25 $2.5 $0.062 Tools Docs
LLM Gateway sonar 130K $1 $1 - Not listed Docs
Kilo Gateway perplexity/sonar 127.072K $1 $1 - Not listed Docs
Perplexity sonar 128K $1 $1 - Not listed Docs
OpenRouter perplexity/sonar 127.072K $1 $1 - Not listed Docs

Capability badges appear only when the provider catalog explicitly lists support.

Serving quality

Performance and reliability

Observed serving measurements stay separate from model specifications and are never estimated from price or model size.

Throughput Not reported

Generation speed; higher is faster.

Latency / TTFT Not reported

Time until the first output token arrives.

Uptime Not reported

Successful requests over a measured period.

Performance varies by inference provider, region, and load. Provider-level measurements appear only when a source reports them.

Published evaluations

Benchmarks

Raw results remain attached to their original source and version.

Benchmark registry
SciCode - Unversioned - percent correctTop 8 reported models
Gemini 2.5 Pro
42.8
GPT-5-Codex
40.9
Step 3.5 Flash
40.4
Step 3.7 Flash
40.0
Gemini 2.5 Flash
39.4
Step 3.5 Flash 2603
38.5
GLM-4.6
38.4
Sonar
22.9
Catalog activity

Recent record changes

Detected changes from successful source imports.

Full change log
Context Length127072 → 128000
Context Length128000 → 127072
Context Length127072 → 128000
Context Length128000 → 127072
Context Length127072 → 128000
Context Length128000 → 127072
Context Length127072 → 128000
Context Length128000 → 127072
Public API

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Fetch the complete source-linked model record without an API key.

API documentation
Endpoint
GET https://www.modelbench.lol/api/v1/models/perplexity/sonar
curl
curl "https://www.modelbench.lol/api/v1/models/perplexity/sonar"