Sonar
by PerplexityChat
Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval
- Context
- 128K tokens
- Max output
- 4,096 tokens
- Parameters
- 70B (total or active not stated)
- Released
- 2024-01-01
- Weights
- Closed
perplexity/sonar · also seen as perplexityai/sonar
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-01-01
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 128,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 4,096
- Providers
- 4 + 8 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $1.00–$1.30 in · $1.00–$1.30 out per 1M tokens · 3 of 4 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-09-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- Parameters
- 70B (total or active not stated)
- Base model
- Llama 3.3 70B
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web search
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $1.00 in / $1.00 out per 1M tokens at Perplexity on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Similarly priced models
Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs Sonar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55BNVIDIA | $0.627 | $0.40 | $1.76 | 1M | +0% |
| llama-3-70bMeta | $0.623 | $0.59 | $0.79 | 8.2K | −0% cheaper |
| DeepSeek R1DeepSeek | $0.617 | $0.40 | $1.70 | 164K | −1% cheaper |
| Moonshot Kimi K2 InstructMoonshot AI | $0.633 | $0.40 | $1.80 | 131K | +1% |
| Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AI | $0.633 | $0.40 | $1.80 | 128K | +1% |
| Kimi K2 InstructMoonshot AI | $0.633 | $0.40 | $1.80 | 262K | +1% |
| Moonshot Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | $0.646 | $0.375 | $2.00 | 262K | +3% |
| Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | $0.60 | $0.27 | $2.25 | 1.05M | −4% cheaper |
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