Sonar Large
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Perplexity AI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Aravind Srinivas — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2025
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (perplexity.ai)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Aravind Srinivas (CEO/Co-founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Search LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Retired (no longer sold)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 6/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 6.5/10 · Currency 7/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 4.5/10 → 6.38
- R · What Makes It Special
- Sonar Large, the larger model in Perplexity's Llama-based Sonar API family, last offered as llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online, which answered questions using live web search with a 128K-token context. Perplexity retired the llama-3.1-sonar models on February 22, 2025, pointing developers to its new Sonar and Sonar Pro models.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($9B valuation, 2025)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @perplexity_ai
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Search LLM from Perplexity AI, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Sonar Large.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/perplexity-sonar-large.html