Sonar

Default Perplexity family for web search, citations, and image-aware search chat.

Pricing

Model Overview

Tracked token-pricing fields for this model family. Empty pricing fields stay hidden until the source publishes them.

Surface

Input and output modalities, enabled feature flags, strengths, and tradeoffs.

Model capabilities
Attribute	Values
Modalities	textimage to text
Capabilities	webSearchimageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths	Search-native, Cheap request tier
Tradeoffs	Request fees sit outside token pricing

References

Canonical launch, documentation, pricing, and release-note URLs.

Official model links
Reference	URL
Intro	https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar
Docs	https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models
Pricing	https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
Release note	https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog

Coverage

Reported benchmark families, versions, scores, sources, and notes.

Benchmark coverage
Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Lifecycle

Lifecycle transitions and release timeline for this model family.

Release history
Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
Sonar	sonar	Active	Jan 21, 2025	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Surfaces

Provider-specific hosting, context, pricing notes, feature differences, and provider-status context.

Host coverage
Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
Perplexity API	first-party	128.0K	Request fees apply in addition to token pricing.	Search-native answers; Citations

Migration

Documented migration summary, successor families, and known breaking changes.

Migration guidance
Topic	Details
Summary	Default Perplexity search family for fast grounded answers.
Replacement models	sonar-pro

Timeline

Cataloged model-family updates and source references.

Change events
Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Jan 21, 2025	family_added	Sonar published	Initial public model family launch.	Sonar release notes

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