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Sonar

Complete specs, pricing, and benchmark data for Sonar by Perplexity. Last verified 2026-09-14.

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Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$1.00

Output / 1M tokens

$1.00

Context & Output

Context Window

127K

Max Output

4,096

TTFT

150ms

Speed

100 tok/s

Benchmarks

Arena ELO

1160

Coding ELO

1170

Reasoning ELO

1160

HumanEval

80

MMLU

80

MATH

48

GPQA

40

Price History (Input $/M tokens)

Strengths
  • +Web search built-in
  • +Affordable
  • +Good quality
Limitations
  • -Older version
  • -Limited reasoning

Best For

Web SearchCost Effective

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