Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
sonar- Released
- Not reported
- Version
- Sonar
- License
- Unknown
PerplexitySonar
Sonar is Perplexity's lightweight search-grounded answer model for quick factual queries and summaries.
- Context
- 128,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Not reported
Providers & Pricing
Estimate workload cost →| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 OpenrouterAvailable | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | Sep 2, 2026 | Provider-reported |
PerplexityAvailable | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | Aug 29, 2026 | Provider-reported |
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Context
- 128,000 tokens
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- Unknown
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Reasoning
- No
- Vision
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Capabilities
- chat, citations, search
This page represents one immutable developer model ID. Serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach separately and never create duplicate model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasessonar
Explicit Unknowns
- Release date
- Maximum output
- Architecture
- Tokenizer
- Knowledge cutoff
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
Comparable Peers
Related Model Comparisons
| A | Pair | B | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
SonarPerplexity | vs | Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | family variantstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs | Sonar ProPerplexity | family variantstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs | Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity | family variantstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs |  ERNIE 5.1Baidu | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs | ERNIE X1.1Baidu | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs |  Command A VisionCohere | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs | Command ACohere | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs |  GPT-4oOpenAI | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs | PaddleOCR-VL-1.5Baidu | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs | ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-PTBaidu | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs |  Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
SonarPerplexity | vs | Gemini Computer UseGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Questions
Sonar FAQs
What is Sonar?+
Sonar is Perplexity's lightweight search-grounded answer model for quick factual queries and summaries. It is developed by Perplexity and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Sonar support?+
Sonar's current record lists Text as input and Text as output.
How much context does Sonar support?+
The current record lists a 128,000-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.
Is Sonar available through an API?+
Sonar is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Openrouter and Perplexity.
How much does Sonar cost through an API?+
The lowest directly sourced prices currently attached to Sonar are $1.00 per million input tokens through Openrouter and $1.00 per million output tokens through Openrouter. Prices are provider-specific and should be checked against each cited observation date.
What capabilities and tasks does Sonar support?+
Sonar's recorded capabilities are chat, citations, and search. Its supported tasks are question-answering, search, and text.
Can Sonar be self-hosted?+
Sonar is not marked as an open-weight model. Self-hosting is marked as unsupported, with no license recorded.
Does Sonar have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are sonar.
Which models can Sonar be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes Sonar Reasoning Pro, Sonar Pro, Sonar Deep Research, ERNIE 5.1, and ERNIE X1.1. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →
How current is the Model Markets record for Sonar?+
Sonar was last verified Aug 29, 2026 from Perplexity's primary source, “Sonar | Perplexity.” The evidence is classified as official fact.