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Sonar

by Perplexity

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 lightwei

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Sonar

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

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...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `perplexity/sonar`.

  • openrouter · perplexity/sonar Docs

OpenRouter id: perplexity/sonar

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 7.7 index

Notes

Sonar is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Sonar is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
2.7B ▲11.8%
Requests, last 7 days
3M
Tool calls, last 7 days
—
Intelligence score
7.7
Average cost per request
57.5¢
Price per million tokens
$1 in · $1 out
0500M1B19 Sept: 273M tokens, 255K requests20 Sept: 285M tokens, 301K requests21 Sept: 443M tokens, 476K requests22 Sept: 382M tokens, 386K requests23 Sept: 497M tokens, 577K requests24 Sept: 371M tokens, 436K requests25 Sept: 342M tokens, 387K requests26 Sept: 224M tokens, 277K requests27 Sept: 242M tokens, 267K requests28 Sept: 350M tokens, 386K requests29 Sept: 332M tokens, 334K requests30 Sept: 419M tokens, 447K requests1 Oct: 559M tokens, 607K requests2 Oct: 461M tokens, 648K requests3 Oct: 230M tokens, 291K requests4 Oct: 230M tokens, 277K requests5 Oct: 403M tokens, 489K requests6 Oct: 431M tokens, 467K requests7 Oct: 473M tokens, 535K requests8 Oct: 412M tokens, 530K requests9 Oct: 366M tokens, 453K requests10 Oct: 247M tokens, 335K requests11 Oct: 283M tokens, 345K requests12 Oct: 361M tokens, 415K requests13 Oct: 342M tokens, 420K requests14 Oct: 410M tokens, 401K requests15 Oct: 376M tokens, 381K requests16 Oct: 371M tokens, 425K requests17 Oct: 251M tokens, 280K requests18 Oct: 254M tokens, 277K requests19 Oct: 481M tokens, 529K requests20 Oct: 393M tokens, 517K requests21 Oct: 581M tokens, 610K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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Price date: 2026-10-18. Prices are USD API token rates. Your app subscription, uploads, browsing and tools are separate.

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Intelligence Index: 7.7 (2026-10-18) ↗
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