Perplexity: Sonar
Perplexity: Sonar at $1.00/1M tokens blended - and ranks #244 of 291 by average real OpenRouter usage share over the trailing 35-day window (0.00%).
- Quality (Intelligence Index) - -
- Coding index - -
- Agentic index - -
- Price (blended $/1M) - 1.00
- Context window - 127,072
- Usage rank - #244 of 291
- Providers - 0
- Open/closed - closed
What Perplexity: Sonar is actually used for
Share of each real task category's classified traffic this model handles, from OpenRouter's task classification.
| Task | Share of task traffic |
|---|---|
| Web Search | 2.2% |
Frequently asked questions
What is Perplexity: Sonar's quality score?
Perplexity: Sonar does not yet have a published Artificial Analysis benchmark score.
How much does Perplexity: Sonar cost?
Perplexity: Sonar costs $1.00 per 1M tokens (blended 75% prompt / 25% completion pricing).
Is Perplexity: Sonar widely used?
Perplexity: Sonar ranks #244 of 291 models by average real OpenRouter usage share, averaging 0.00% of classified token volume over the trailing 35-day window.
Is Perplexity: Sonar open-weight or closed?
Perplexity: Sonar is a closed-weight model.
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of August 9, 2026.
Benchmark scores: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).
Methodology: smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology
Token counts originate from each provider's own tokenizer and are not directly comparable across providers.