Perplexity/sonar/Released Jan 2025

Perplexity Sonar

Fast web-grounded search, built on Llama

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About Perplexity Sonar

Perplexity Sonar is an LLM built on top of Llama 3.3 70B and further trained in-house by Perplexity to optimize answer quality, factuality, and readability for search-augmented tasks. It excels in delivering fast, accurate answers grounded in real-time web data with detailed citations—making it especially effective for research, fact-checking, and obtaining up-to-date information.

Some other noteworthy features of Perplexity Sonar include its ability to provide concise responses with source attribution at high speed (up to 1,200 tokens per second), seamless integration with Perplexity’s search engine for enhanced user experience, and a context window suitable for handling complex queries.

MetricValue
Context Length128,000 tokens
MultilingualYes

Ready to build with Perplexity Sonar?

Try Perplexity Sonar in the Workbench to prompt it, compare outputs, and iterate on prompts without writing any code. When you're ready to ship, call the same model from our API and build your own apps on top of it.

curl -sSf -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
    -d '{
  "model": "sonar",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Try sending a message."
    }
  ]
}'

API endpoint

See the API reference for request and response formats.

POSThttps://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions