How much does Sonar Large cost per million tokens?

Sonar Large is priced at $1.00 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $1.00 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Perplexity API at the time of writing.

What is Sonar Large's context window?

Sonar Large supports a context window of 127K tokens.

Is Sonar Large open source?

No. Sonar Large is a closed-weight model, you can use it via Perplexity's API but the model weights are not publicly downloadable.

When was Sonar Large released?

Sonar Large was released on Nov 19, 2024 by Perplexity.

How much does Sonar Large cost per million tokens?

Sonar Large is priced at $1.00 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $1.00 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Perplexity API at the time of writing.

What is Sonar Large's context window?

Sonar Large supports a context window of 127K tokens.

Is Sonar Large open source?

No. Sonar Large is a closed-weight model, you can use it via Perplexity's API but the model weights are not publicly downloadable.

When was Sonar Large released?

Sonar Large was released on Nov 19, 2024 by Perplexity.

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Sonar Large

Perplexity's flagship answer-engine model with built-in web search grounding.

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Quick facts

Released: Nov 2024
Context: 127K tokens
Output / 1M: $1.00 / 1M tokens
License: Proprietary

About Sonar Large

Sonar Large is the production model behind Perplexity's answer engine. It's not a general-purpose chat model, it's tuned to take a query, search the web, and produce a cited answer. For Q&A with sources it's hard to beat; for everything else use a different model.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Perplexity's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval

Python coding pass@1

MMLU

Broad academic knowledge

GPQA

Graduate-level reasoning

SWE-bench

Real software-engineering tasks

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

Web-search grounded
Citation-first output
Cheap

Tracked weaknesses

Not a general-purpose chat model

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Perplexity.

Tier	Price	Notes
Input	$1.00 / 1M tokens	Tokens you send to the model
Output	$1.00 / 1M tokens	Tokens the model generates
Context	127K tokens	Max combined input + output

Call Sonar Large from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Perplexity SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "sonar-large",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Frequently asked

How much does Sonar Large cost per million tokens?
Sonar Large is priced at $1.00 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $1.00 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Perplexity API at the time of writing.
What is Sonar Large's context window?
Sonar Large supports a context window of 127K tokens.
Is Sonar Large open source?
No. Sonar Large is a closed-weight model, you can use it via Perplexity's API but the model weights are not publicly downloadable.
When was Sonar Large released?
Sonar Large was released on Nov 19, 2024 by Perplexity.

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