Sonar
Perplexity · perplexity/sonar
Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features...
Sonar ranks #198 of 348 models in the default AI Benchmark Hub order (quality first, then cost). At $1.00 blended per million tokens, it is cheaper than 52% of models with published API pricing. Its 127,072-token context window is 2.1× smaller than the catalog median (262,144 tokens).
Context
Max output: 114364
Pricing
Output / 1M: 1.00
Blend / 1M: 1.00
Quality
Provider
Moderated: no
Monthly cost at this blended rate
Estimated API spend if every token is billed at $1.00per million (the blend of this model's input and output prices). Real bills depend on the input/output mix.
| Tokens / month | Est. cost (USD) |
|---|---|
| 1,000,000 | $1.00 |
| 10,000,000 | $10.00 |
| 100,000,000 | $100.00 |
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