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Sonar
ActiveCost-efficient real-time search model; $1/1M tokens + $5 per 1K searches. Default model on the Free plan.
About this version
Sonar is an active, fast‑tier model in Perplexity’s family of AI services, offering a large 200 000‑token context window for real‑time search tasks. It is positioned as a cost‑efficient option, priced at $1 per million tokens plus $5 per thousand searches, and serves as the default model on Perplexity’s free plan.
- API string
- sonar
- Context window
- 200K ctx
- Tier
- Fast
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Patches, price changes, benchmarks, and deprecations for Sonar will appear here as they’re recorded. Follow the broader Catch Me Up digest in the meantime.
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