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Leaderboard/Perplexity

Perplexity · Sonar

Sonar (Sonar API)

Closed weightsDeprecatedproprietary

Perplexity's search-grounded chat model on the legacy Sonar Chat Completions API, which Perplexity supports only until 2026-09-27.

AA Intelligence: 7.7#116 of 142
Input / output per 1M: $1.00/ $1.00
Output speed: —
Context window: 127K tokens

Composite indexes

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#116 of 142
8independentIntelligence Index v4.3; non-reasoning; estimatedArtificial Analysis: Sonar ↗
Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

LiveCodeBench#44 of 56
29.5%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Sonar ↗
Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Reasoning and knowledge

GPQA Diamond#129 of 142
47.1%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Sonar ↗
Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%
Humanity’s Last Exam#125 of 147
4.9%independentno tools; non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Sonar ↗
Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

Specs

Released: January 21, 2025
Parameters: Undisclosed
Size class: Undisclosed
Input: text
Output: text
Context: 127K tokens
Max output: Not published
Blended 70/30: $1.00 / 1M

Price: Perplexity API pricing ↗ Plus request fee $5/$8/$12 per 1K requests (low/medium/high search context). Sonar API supported until 2026-09-27; replaced by Agent API.

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