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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.

Tool UseVision (Image)
index.ts
import { streamText } from 'ai'
const result = streamText({
model: 'perplexity/sonar',
prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'
})

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Model
Context
Latency
Throughput
Input
Output
Cache
Web Search
Per Query
Capabilities
Providers
ZDR
No Training
Release Date
200K
1.9s
113tps
$3.00/M$15.00/M
$6/K*
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02/19/2025
127K
2.9s
118tps
$2.00/M$8.00/M
$6/K*
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02/19/2025