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Perplexity Sonar
perplexity·perplexity/sonar-4·GA·Closed·sonar series
Sonar search model for current answers, retrieval, and citation-backed chat
At a glance
Reference price$1.00 / $1.00 per 1M
Cache read — · Kilo Gateway
Lowest paid$1.00 / $1.00
Helicone Gateway · 1× spread
Context127,072
⚠ Providers report 127,000–127,072; the table below is authoritative
Output limit25,415
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Released / updated2025-01-27 / 2025-01-27
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 2 providers2 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helicone sonar | Gateway | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127,000 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| Kilo Gateway perplexity/sonar | Gateway | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127,072 | 25,415 |
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
1Helicone$250.00
2Kilo Gateway$250.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Related models
Perplexity Deep Researchsame series$3.40 / $13.60Perplexity Simplesame series$1.00 / $1.00Sonar Deep Researchsame series$2.00 / $8.00Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.216 / $0.861Llama-3.1-8B-Instructcheaper alternative$0.15 / $0.45Qwen3 Coder Flashcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $1.00Output list $1.00Min blended $1.00
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.