Sonar
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- API mode
- Chat*
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Maximum output
- 4,096 tokens
- Open weights
- No
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API cost
Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.
Sonar
Sonar / Pricing tiers
| Provider / scope | Rate | Currency | Amount / unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| PerplexitySonarStandard | Cached input | USD | 0.0625 / 1M tokens |
| Input | USD | 0.25 / 1M tokens | |
| Output | USD | 2.5 / 1M tokens |
Capabilities
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Maximum input
- 128,000 tokens*
- Maximum output
- 4,096 tokens
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Open weights
- No
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-09-01
- API mode
- Chat*
- Web search
- Yes*
Input modalities
- text
Output modalities
- text
System configuration
Detailed specifications
Specifications · 8 fields
- input cost per token
- 1.0e-6*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
- litellm provider
- perplexity*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
- max input tokens
- 128,000*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
- max tokens
- 128,000*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
- mode
- chat*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
- output cost per token
- 1.0e-6*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
- search context cost per query
- search_context_size_high
- 0.012*
- search_context_size_low
- 0.005*
- search_context_size_medium
- 0.008*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
- supports web search
- Yes*
Scope and conditions
- native_context
- provider
- perplexity*
- mode
- chat*
- full_native_model_id
- perplexity/sonar*
- pricing_scope
- Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
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