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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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Model
Context
Latency
Throughput
Input
Output
Cache
Web Search
Capabilities
Providers
ZDR
No Training
Release Date
200K
1.7s
112tps
$3/M
$15/M
$6/K*
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02/19/2025
127K
2.8s
114tps
$2/M
$8/M
$6/K*
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