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Sonar
perplexity·perplexity/sonar-2·GA·Closed·sonar series
Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval
At a glance
Official price$1.00 / $1.00 per 1M
Cache read — · Perplexity
Lowest paid$0.25 / $2.50
Perplexity Agent Gateway · 4× spread
Context128,000
⚠ Providers report 127,000–130,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit4,096
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-09-01
Released / updated2024-01-01 / 2025-09-01
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence9.4
Value12
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed—
TTFT—
Value formulaIQ 9.4 ÷ min blended $0.813 = 12
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 7 providers6 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Agent perplexity/sonar | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.50 | $0.063 | — | 128,000 | 8,192 | |
| OpenRouter perplexity/sonar | Gateway | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127,072 ⚠ | 127,072 | |
| PerplexityOfficial sonar | First-party | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,096 | |
| SAP AI Core sonar | Cloud | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,096 | |
| Eden AI perplexityai/sonar | Gateway | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127,072 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) sonar | Gateway | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 130,000 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway perplexity/sonar | Cloud | — | — | — | — | 127,000 ⚠ | 8,000 | hostTable.undisclosed |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Perplexity Agent$152.50
2OpenRouter$250.00
3Perplexity · Official$250.00
4SAP AI Core$250.00
5Eden AI$250.00
6DevPass (LLM Gateway)$250.00
Switch to Perplexity Agent to save $97.50/mo (39%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.9 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Related models
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended