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Sonar
Perplexity's lightweight search-grounded API model that answers with cited web sources.
- Perplexity AI
- Closed
Where it ranks
- –Search & researchModels · Cloud · no result on this task’s benchmarks yet
Facts
- Vendor
- Perplexity AI
- Family
- Sonar
- Released
- —
- Weights
- Closed: API and apps only
- License
- proprietary
- API price
- $1 in / $1 out per 1M tokens (Plus a request fee of $5 / $8 / $12 per 1K requests for low / medium / high search context.)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from docs.perplexity.ai, 18 Oct 2026.
Benchmark results
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Where you can use it
- SOpenRouterSearch APIs & engines · Cloud
- –PoeQuora