MODEL PROOF
Sonar
NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED
No independent LMArena score is published for this model.
- Independent LMArena score
- Not independently rated
- Context window
- 127.07K
- Maximum output
- 114.36K
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $1.00 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.00 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Perplexity: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $1.00/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.00/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
| Web search | $0.005/call |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexityperplexity Endpoint terms
| $1.00 | $1.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
Independent scores
No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 127K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 114K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |
Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features...
Questions this page answers
What does Sonar cost?
$1.00/M in, $1.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Sonar have an independent quality score?
Sonar has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.
What beats Sonar?
Sonar has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Sonar?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Does a missing score mean Sonar scored zero?
Unrated is not a score of zero.
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