Sonar
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Sonar
Perplexity
- Released
- January 2025
- Data date
- September 8, 2026
- Intelligence
- Overall score
- Price
- Input · Output / 1M tokens
No published category-wide ranking is available for this model.
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Measurements without matching peer values
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SimpleQA F-score (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 77.3
- Score
- 77.3
- Metric
- percent
- Unit
- %
- Category
- factuality
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Comparison cohort
- research:perplexity-sonar:0
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Perplexity official API resource
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-08
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Perplexity Sonar API; SimpleQA factuality benchmark; January 2025 launch comparison
- Context
- Vendor announcement does not disclose the exact model snapshot, search mode, prompt set, or evaluator beyond the named SimpleQA F-score.
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Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Prompt and test conditions
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)Profile
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Pricing
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$0.15
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- Input price
- $1 / 1M tokensBase tier for each request
- Output price
- $1 / 1M tokensBase tier for each request
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Evidence
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- Price
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Research date September 8, 2026. 6 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Open evidence questions and research notes (original wording)
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parameters-billions. No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation.
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active-parameters-billions. No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation.
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knowledge-cutoff. No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation.
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profile-benchmarks-additional. The checked Perplexity model page and improved-model resource expose capabilities and pricing, but no additional exact numeric benchmark rows in accessible text.
Unresolved
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