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SonarAPI
Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources.
Prices update automatically — checked hourly against provider list prices.
- $1 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 70% of the 173 commercial models tracked here
- 1 of 5 Perplexity models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Sonar, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
Models at this level cost $0.2 per 1M tokens (median of 23) — this one costs $1.
Cheaper and better on this index: GLM 5.2 · MiniMax M3 · MiniMax M3 (batch) and 95 more
About this model
Sonar is a commercial AI model by Perplexity. The specifications below are tracked automatically: pricing is refreshed hourly from public list prices, so the numbers on this page reflect the current cost of using the model through its API.
Frequently asked questions
What is Sonar?
Sonar is an AI language model from Perplexity. It is a proprietary model, available through an API. It scores 9.5 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Sonar free?
Sonar is not free: it costs $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens. Open-weight alternatives can be self-hosted at no per-token cost.
What is Sonar good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 47.1%, MMLU-Pro 68.9%, Humanity's Last Exam 7.3%, LiveCodeBench 29.5%, SciCode 22.9%, MATH-500 81.7%, AIME 48.7%.