Sonar

perplexity/sonar

Perplexity model · Served by perplexity · live on the gateway

Try in chat Get API key

Input / 1M

$0.250

Output / 1M

$2.50

Context

128K tokens

Max output

4K tokens

Input

Text

Released

2y ago

Pricing

Input tokens$0.250 per 1M

Output tokens$2.50 per 1M

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About Sonar

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

What it supports

Tool calling (function calling)
JSON mode and structured output
Image input (vision)
Audio input
Extended reasoning
Streaming responses
OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK and any OpenAI-compatible client

Make a request

curl https://rapidrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RAPIDROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity/sonar",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
  }'

Frequently asked

How do I call Sonar through an OpenAI-compatible API?

Point any OpenAI-compatible client at https://rapidrouter.ai/api/v1 with a Rapid Router API key and set the model to perplexity/sonar. The chat completions endpoint is https://rapidrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions.

What is the context window of Sonar?

Sonar has a context window of 128,000 tokens on Rapid Router, and returns up to 4,096 output tokens per reply.