Sonar
Perplexity's lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.
text + image → text · made by Perplexity
$0.25→$2.5per Mtok in / out
Vercel AI Gateway · 3 sellers
Sold by 6 ways
| Seller | Lane | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Perplexity 0 ways | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok out$12per 1K calls | |
| Perplexity apinot on the seller's list today | high | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok out$12per 1K callsdocs.perplexity.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| Perplexity 0 ways | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok out$5per 1K calls | |
| Perplexity apinot on the seller's list today | low | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok out$5per 1K callsdocs.perplexity.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| Perplexity 0 ways | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok out$8per 1K calls | |
| Perplexity apinot on the seller's list today | medium | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok out$8per 1K callsdocs.perplexity.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| Vercel AI Gateway aggregator | standard | $0.25per Mtok in$2.5per Mtok out$0.062per Mtok cache writeai-gateway.vercel.sh · read 2026-10-01 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | standard | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok outopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-24 |
| Requesty aggregator | perplexity | $1per Mtok in$1per Mtok out$1per Mtok cachedrouter.requesty.ai · read 2026-08-28 |
Measured 1 standing
| Place | Board | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34thof 54 | Live bench — Epoch AI | Global average | 46.88 |
About
Sonar — a text model from Perplexity, sold by 3 companies from $0.25 in and $2.5 out per million tokens, placed 34th of 54 on Live bench — Epoch AI.
It takes text and images and returns text, with a context window of 127,000 tokens. The catalogue files it under search. Three companies sell it. The cheapest is $0.25 in and $2.5 out per million tokens at Vercel AI Gateway. Beside the standard rate there is a separately routed lane. It stands 34th of 54 on Live bench — Epoch AI.
Every current figure
- Maker
- Perplexity
- Register
- model
- Takes
- text + image
- Returns
- text
- Context
- 127,000 tokens
- Knowledge to
- September 2025
- Licence
- not read
- Sellers
- 3
- Price
- $0.25 in and $2.5 out per million tokens — Vercel AI Gateway
- Boards
- 1
- Best place
- 34th of 54 — Live bench — Epoch AI
Known as 1 name
perplexity/sonar