perplexity
Perplexity: Sonar
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...
- Type
- text
- Provider
- perplexity
- Model ID
- perplexity/sonar
- Capabilities
- vision
- Context window
- 127K tokens
- Input price
- $1.10 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $1.10 / 1M tokens
Cloud price is billed from prepaid credits when a request fails over to the cloud. Open-weight models run free on GPUs you own — the gateway routes to your nodes first.
What it costs to run
cloud · 1M in + 1M out
$2.20
$1.10 for a million input tokens plus $1.10 for a million output tokens, billed from credits only when a request fails over to the cloud.
your hardware
cloud only
Perplexity: Sonar is a hosted model, so it is always served from the cloud. Route easy traffic to an open model on your own hardware and keep this one for the requests that need it.
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Call Perplexity: Sonar through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Mix it with open models on your own hardware — the gateway routes each request to the cheapest place that can serve it.
no credit card · 2 nodes free · openai-compatible
Frequently asked questions
- What is the context window of Perplexity: Sonar?
- Perplexity: Sonar accepts up to 127,072 tokens (127K) of context per request.
- How much does Perplexity: Sonar cost per million tokens?
- Through Wide Area Intelligence, Perplexity: Sonar costs $1.10 per 1M input tokens and $1.10 per 1M output tokens when served from the cloud, billed from prepaid credits. A workload of 1M input plus 1M output tokens costs $2.20.