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Perplexity Sonar

by Helicone · family sonar · listed Jan 2025

Sonar search model for current answers, retrieval, and citation-backed chat

Current rates USD per 1M tokens

Input$1.00
Output$1.00
Cache read
Cache write

Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.14 per 1M tokens$0.14Qwen3.7 PlusQwen3.7 Plus: $0.50 per 1M tokens$0.50Perplexity SonarPerplexity Sonar: $1.00 per 1M tokens$1.00Grok 4.3Grok 4.3: $1.25 per 1M tokens$1.25Gemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3.5 Flash: $1.50 per 1M tokens$1.50Mistral Medium (latest)Mistral Medium (latest): $1.50 per 1M tokens$1.50Claude Sonnet 5Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00GPT-5.5 ProGPT-5.5 Pro: $30.00 per 1M tokens$30.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.28 per 1M tokens$0.28Perplexity SonarPerplexity Sonar: $1.00 per 1M tokens$1.00Grok 4.3Grok 4.3: $2.50 per 1M tokens$2.50Qwen3.7 PlusQwen3.7 Plus: $3.00 per 1M tokens$3.00Mistral Medium (latest)Mistral Medium (latest): $7.50 per 1M tokens$7.50Gemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3.5 Flash: $9.00 per 1M tokens$9.00Claude Sonnet 5Claude Sonnet 5: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00GPT-5.5 ProGPT-5.5 Pro: $180 per 1M tokens$180

On the record

Model id
sonar
Context window
127K tokens
Max output
4K tokens
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Reasoning
no
Tool calls
no
Open weights
no
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
Released
2025-01-27
Last updated
2025-01-27
Provider docs
helicone.ai/models

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