Perplexity: 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...

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127,072 tokens
Input
text · image
Output
text
Relay support
Text & vision

Reference prices & points

Our global markup: 15% · 1 USD = 10,000 points · Price version 0

Billing unitOpenRouter / USDOur reference / USDPoints
Input / 1M tokens$1$1.1511,500
Output / 1M tokens$1$1.1511,500
Per search$0.005$0.0057557.5

Actual charge = the OpenRouter request cost × the markup locked for that request. Catalogue rates may be routing references; caching, long context, images and audio are charged when used. Listed prices do not mean every capability is available through this relay.

Catalogue time: 2026-11-11T23:05:25.472Z · Live catalogue

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  "prompt": "0.000001",
  "completion": "0.000001",
  "web_search": "0.005"
}

Integration & availability

Use /v1/chat/completions for non-streaming, multi-turn conversations. Models marked for vision accept images; documents can be extracted to text in the workspace. Create a site API key and ensure you have enough points and the service is enabled. Provider availability, context and budget limits apply.

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