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Sonar

Sonar is Perplexity's lightweight search model. It combines language generation with built-in web search to deliver citation-backed answers at low cost within a context window of 127K tokens.

Vision (Image)Web Search
index.ts
import { streamText } from 'ai'


const result = streamText({
  model: 'perplexity/sonar',
  prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'
})
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Provider
Context
Max Output
Latency
Throughput
Input
Output
Cache
Web Search
Capabilities
ZDR
No Training
Release Date
Perplexity
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127K8K
1.9s
141tps
$1/M
$1/M
$5/K*
02/19/2025