Sonar

Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval

Context: 127K
Released: 2y ago
Input / 1M tokens: $1.00
Output / 1M tokens: $1.00

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.

No benchmark results have been matched to this model yet.

Specifications

Developer: Perplexity
Model family: Sonar
Type: Language model
Predecessor: —
Successor: —
Released: January 1, 2024
Model ID: perplexity/sonar
Openness: Closed
License: —
Input modalities: text, image
Output modalities: text
Modality: text+image->text
Tokenizer: Other
Max output tokens: 114K
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-09-01
Hugging Face: —
Source freshness: Metadata synced Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

Additional source evidence

Source model: perplexity/sonar
Source family: sonar
Last updated: 2025-09-01
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-09-01
Model context: 128K
Model output limit: 4K
Open weights: No
File attachments: No
Reasoning: No
Tool calling: No
Temperature control: Yes

Published benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Evaluation details	Evidence
SciCode	22.9 · percent correct	2026-03-11	Source

Complete source record (JSON)

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      "score": 22.9,
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      "metric": "percent correct",
      "date": "2026-03-11"
    }
  ],
  "release_date": "2024-01-01",
  "open_weights": false
}

Infrastructure

Provider availability

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Provider	Endpoint	Context	Input /M tokens	Output /M tokens	Cached input /M tokens	Cache write /M tokens	Uptime 1d	Data handling
Perplexity	perplexity	127K	$1.00	$1.00	—	—	100.00%	ZDR: Yes Training: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown ZDR source Privacy policy Checked 2026-10-15

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