Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features optimized for speed.
Modalities
In / Out Price
$1 / $1per 1M
Context
127K
Released
Jan 27, 2025
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features optimized for speed.
Sonar costs $1.00/M input tokens and $1.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Web Search at $5.00/1K calls.
Sonar has a 127,072 token context window.
The Sonar endpoint shown on this page does not accept tools, so function calling is unavailable there. It does not support response_format, so JSON output is not enforced.
Sonar accepts text and images as input and returns text.
Sonar Pro Search, Sonar Reasoning Pro, Sonar Pro and 1 more are other text models from Perplexity.
Sonar was released on January 27, 2025.
| $1.00 | $1.00 | 1.88s | 80 tps |
Throughput
80tok/s
P50, best across providers
Latency
1.88s
P50, best provider
100.00%
99.92%
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.