Sonar is Perplexity’s lightweight, affordable, and fast question-answering model, now featuring citations and customizable sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate rapid, citation-enabled Q&A features optimized for speed and simplicity.
$0.50market price $1.00
$0.50market price $1.00
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second, higher is better). Time to first token is how long before the answer starts (lower is better).
Share of requests served without a server error. Client errors (4xx) do not count.
Works with the OpenAI SDK pointed at our base URL. Every parameter is in the API reference.
Tokens processed per day on NagaAI.
Sonar is Perplexity’s lightweight, affordable, and fast question-answering model, now featuring citations and customizable sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate rapid, citation-enabled Q&A features optimized for speed and simplicity.
On NagaAI, Sonar costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens. You pay only for what you use, with no subscription.
Sonar reads up to 127.1k tokens in one request, counting the prompt and the answer together.
Yes. Sonar can call your functions as tools and can answer in a JSON schema you give it.
It takes text as input and returns text.
Create an API key, copy the model ID from the top of this page and send requests with the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK pointed at NagaAI. The API section on this page has a ready example.
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