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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Measured against all 392 chat models CoreAI serves, Perplexity: Sonar sits at #351 for context capacity — 127K tokens, roughly 95,304 words or 191 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #114 cheapest of 183 standard-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2025-01-27. It accepts image input alongside text.
Every model in this table is available on CoreAI — open the web app and run the same prompt through Perplexity: Sonar and Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro side by side to judge with your own eyes.
A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00150 on Perplexity: Sonar's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.055. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Perplexity: Sonar and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Perplexity: Sonar handles 127K tokens of context — roughly 95,304 words, or about 191 pages of text in one conversation.
Perplexity: Sonar's underlying rates are $1 per 1M input tokens and $1 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
Yes — Perplexity: Sonar accepts image input, so you can attach screenshots, photos or diagrams and ask questions about them.
No — Perplexity: Sonar answers directly without an extended reasoning phase, which usually means faster responses.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3, inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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