Perplexity: Sonar

perplexity/sonar

Sonar is Perplexity's budget option at $1/$1 per million input/output tokens, with a 127K-token context. It sits mid-board on capability, at #163 of 234 on the TryAii Score — its best showing is #11 on LiveBench. It's reasonably quick at about 56 tokens/sec.

Prompt $/1M

$1.000

Completion $/1M

$1.000

Context

127,072 tok

Best provider

56 tok/s · Perplexity

Specs

Model id: perplexity/sonar
Display name: Perplexity: Sonar
Modality: text+image->text
Tokenizer: Other
Instruct type: —
Context length: 127,072
Max completion: 114,364
Prompt $/1M: $1.000
Completion $/1M: $1.000
Free tier: no

Capabilities

Function callingno
JSON modeno
System promptno
Visionno
Moderatedno

Benchmark scores

Each axis is one benchmark, normalized to the best model in the field.

No benchmark data for this model.

Speed by provider

Provider	tok/s	TTFT	Total latency
Perplexityfastest	56	2,897 ms	3,358 ms
Artificial Analysis	0	0 ms	—