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.
Sonar Reasoning is a Perplexity model based on DeepSeek R1, designed for long chain-of-thought reasoning with built-in web search. It is uncensored, hosted in US datacenters, and allows developers to leverage extended reasoning for complex queries, making it suitable for research and knowledge-intensive applications.
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.
Sonar Reasoning is a Perplexity model based on DeepSeek R1, designed for long chain-of-thought reasoning with built-in web search. It is uncensored, hosted in US datacenters, and allows developers to leverage extended reasoning for complex queries, making it suitable for research and knowledge-intensive applications.
Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model from Perplexity, engineered for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics. It autonomously searches, reads, and evaluates sources, refining its approach as it gathers information. This enables comprehensive report generation in domains like finance, technology, health, and current events. The model’s pricing is based on prompt tokens, citation tokens, and the number of searches and reasoning tokens used during its extensive research phase.
Sonar Reasoning Pro is Perplexity’s premier reasoning model, powered by DeepSeek R1 with Chain of Thought (CoT) capabilities. Designed for advanced use cases, it supports in-depth, multi-step queries with a larger context window and can surface more citations per search, enabling more comprehensive and extensible responses. Pricing includes Perplexity search costs for integrated web research.
Sonar Pro is an enterprise-grade API from Perplexity, built for advanced, multi-step queries with added extensibility. It can handle longer and more nuanced searches, follow-up questions, and provides double the number of citations per search compared to the standard Sonar model. The model is optimized for large context windows and comprehensive information retrieval.