Claude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/MClaude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/M
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Sonar

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Cheap default Sonar. Web-grounded with citations at the lowest Perplexity price point.

Sonar is a efficient AI model from Perplexity. It costs $1.000 per million input tokens and $1.000 per million output tokens (blended $1.000/M), with a 127K-token context window.

Modalities textOfficial model page ↗Provider pricing ↗API docs ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$1.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$1.000/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$1.000/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
127K
127,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • Cheap web-grounded chat
  • Citations included
  • Fast
Typical use cases
  • Bulk research queries
  • Cheap fact-grounded chat
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
MMLU79%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
GPQA Diamond47%
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH65%
High-school competition math problems.
HumanEval70%
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources — treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does Sonar cost?

Sonar costs $1.000 per million input tokens and $1.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $1.000 per million tokens.

What is Sonar's context window?

Sonar supports up to 127K tokens of context (127,000 tokens).

What is Sonar best for?

Sonar is well suited to Cheap web-grounded chat, Citations included and Fast.

Who makes Sonar?

Sonar is developed and served by Perplexity.