Perplexity Sonar

Perplexity AI · 2025 · Search LLM · USA

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Perplexity AI
C · CEO & Politics: Aravind Srinivas — No public partisan activity documented
D · Date: 2025
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud
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: API (Agent API): $0.25/M input, $2.50/M output, plus tool fees (e.g. web search $2.50 per 1,000 calls)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Sonar, Perplexity's in-house answer model, rebuilt in February 2025 on Llama 3.3 70B and further trained for factual, readable answers grounded in search results: Perplexity said it beat GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku on user satisfaction and ran at 1,200 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware for Pro users. The Sonar API opened in January 2025; since Sonar Chat Completions support ended September 27, 2026, Sonar runs through the Agent API at $0.25/$2.50 per million tokens.
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 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Perplexity Sonar.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/perplexity-sonar.html