Sonar
Sonar is worth evaluating for classification and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 127k context window
- Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Sonar
- Released
- 2025-01-27
- Context
- 127k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- finetuned
Developing AI for complex problem-solving.
Cheapest of 3 routes · OpenRouter
About
Lightweight, cost-effective Perplexity search model with grounding and citations. Request fees: $5-$12/1K requests depending on search context depth (Low/Medium/High).
Sonar is a model. The structured metadata tracks a 127k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter, Perplexity Labs, and Vercel AI Gateway, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1 input and $1 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Sonar yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 3Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $1.00 | $1.00 | Serverless |
| Perplexity Labs | $1.00 | $1.00 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.