Sonar

perplexity/sonar

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...

Input

$1.3 / 1M tokens

Output

$1.3 / 1M tokens

Context

127K tokens

Capabilities

✓ Streaming○ Tool / function calling○ JSON / structured output✓ Vision (image input)

Call this model

Pass perplexity/sonar as the model. Change only the base URL from your existing OpenAI SDK setup.

quickstart.sh

curl https://modeldatabase.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MDB_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity/sonar",
    "messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]
  }'

Prices are final — the routing margin is already included. See the full pricing table or the API docs.