Sonar

Perplexity · released January 2025

Sonar is a Perplexity model with a 127K token context window — about 180 pages of text. It reads Text and Images and replies in Text.

$1.15

input / 1M tokens

$1.15

output / 1M tokens

127K

context — about 180 pages

0.67¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input

$1.15 per million tokens

Output

$1.15 per million tokens

Web search

0.57¢ per search

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider

Perplexity

Released

January 2025 (2025-01-27)

Context window

127K tokens — about 180 pages

Max output

Not specified

Input

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Cost vs Token Amount

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Sonar

Perplexity

0.29¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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Compare Sonar

Closest in price on a typical task:

Sonar vs Hermes 3 405B Instruct →Sonar vs Qwen3 Coder Plus →Sonar vs Nemotron 3 Ultra →Sonar vs Qwen3.6 27B →Any other combination →

Questions, answered

How much does Sonar cost on Alyph?

Sonar costs $1.15 per million input tokens and $1.15 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.67¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is Sonar's context window?

127K tokens — about 180 pages.

Can Sonar read images and files?

Sonar reads Text and Images. Drop a file onto the canvas and it becomes part of the context — the only limit is the context window.

Does Sonar show its reasoning?

No — Sonar answers directly, without a visible thinking pass.

Test Sonar against Hermes 3 405B Instruct

One prompt, both models at the same time, the better answer wins. Free to start, with $5 of credit.