Model

Sonar

Name: Sonar
Brand: perplexity

Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval

12 providers · 12 listingsreleased Jan 1, 2024knowledge cutoff 2025-09-01closed weights

$0.25

lowest input /M · Perplexity Agent

lowest output /M · NanoGPT

130K

context window

114K

max output

Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)

11 of 12 providers publish a price for Sonar. The cheapest full-context option is Perplexity Agent at $0.25/$2.5 per M — 23% below Perplexity's own price.

			Cache read /M	Cache write /M		Capabilities
Perplexity Agent perplexity/sonar	$0.25	$2.50	$0.063	—	128K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
NanoGPT sonar	$1	$1	$0.5	—	127K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
LLM Gateway perplexity/sonar	$1	$1	—	—	130K	no reasoningno toolsstructuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
SAP AI Core sonar	$1	$1	—	—	128K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
Helicone sonar	$1	$1	—	—	127K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Jan 27, 2025
DevPass (LLM Gateway) sonar	$1	$1	—	—	130K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
Opper perplexity/sonar	$1	$1	—	—	128K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
Kilo Gateway perplexity/sonar	$1	$1	—	—	127K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Jan 27, 2025
OpenRouter perplexity/sonar	$1	$1	—	—	127K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Jan 27, 2025
Perplexity sonar	$1	$1	—	—	128K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
Eden AI perplexityai/sonar	$1	$1	—	—	127K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Sep 1, 2025
Vercel AI Gateway perplexity/sonar	—	—	—	—	127K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Feb 19, 2025

Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M: $0.25unchanged
Best output /M: $2.50unchanged
Provider coverage: 12; 11 at the start · 24 snapshots

Published best prices are unchanged.

24 daily snapshots collected from Aug 21, 2026 through Sep 14, 2026. A price chart will appear after the first real move.

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Recent changes

Changelog →

contextvia nano-gpt · Sep 3, 2026
- context: 127K → 127K tokens
- output: 128K → 114K tokens
- input: 127K → 127K tokens
contextvia kilo · Aug 25, 2026
- output: 25K → 114K tokens
contextvia openrouter · Aug 25, 2026
- output: 127K → 114K tokens
new providervia opper · Aug 23, 2026

Benchmarks

SciCode(percent correct)report ↗Marketplace22.9

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Prices are per million tokens (USD). “—” means the provider does not publicly list a price for this model. Data from models.dev; verify with the provider before purchasing.