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Sonar

GA

Lightweight, cost-effective real-time web search model with grounding/citations. 128K context. Token pricing $1/$1 per 1M in/out. Additional per-request search fee NOT included in token price: $5/$8/$12 per 1,000 requests for low/medium/high search context size (pricing page). Supports image uploads (added Apr 2025) and file attachments PDF/DOC/DOCX/TXT/RTF (added Sep 2025). Max output tokens not published by Perplexity. Knowledge cutoff not published (search-grounded model with live web access). Pricing page fetched 2026-06-28.

Provider
Perplexity
Status
GA
Input price
$1 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1 / 1M tokens
Cached input
—
Blended price
$1 / 1M tokens
Context window
128,000 tokens (128K)
Max output
—
Modality
text, image
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
Jan 2025
API string
sonar

Source: Perplexity official documentation ↗

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