Sonar
perplexity/sonar- Perplexity
- Family · Sonar
- Released 21 Jan 2025
- Text · Image → Text
- Vision
Not on OSMEXO yet
Spec & list price
Context124K
Max output114K
Input / 1M$1.00
Output / 1M$1.001× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence7.7#318/489
Usage
Tokens / day338.4M▼ 8.3% 7d
Usage rank#241
Requests / day263.1K
Per request · 30 days
Avg input5300.0× median
Avg output3670.5× median
Consumption
Peak 580.9M 21 OctLow 223.8M 26 SepRank today #241
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across providers, latest day
Output speed#67/334104 tok/s1.6× faster than median
First token#2652.07 s2.0× longer than median
#30 cheapest of 40 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Family progress
Intelligence Index
- Family releases8.7
Technical details
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Moderation
- none
Request parameters 7
- temperature
- top_p
- top_k
- max_tokens
- frequency_penalty
- presence_penalty
- web_search_options
When to use
Best for
- Quick web-grounded answers at low cost
- News and fact lookups with citations
- Lightweight search features in apps
- Simple image-aware questions
Think twice for
- Hardest reasoning tasks
- Tool-calling agents
- Structured JSON output
- Self-hosting (closed weights)
Same family
Sonar- 8.7
Alternatives
other vendors · similar capability- 10.2
- 12.7
- 9.0
- 9.2
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