Perplexity Sonar Large combines a powerful LLM with real-time web search, automatically citing sources for every claim. It's the best model for research tasks requiring up-to-date information that falls outside training data cutoffs.
Pricing Breakdown
| Volume | Input Cost | Output Cost | Combined (50/50) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 tokens | $0.0010 | $0.0010 | $0.0010 |
| 10,000 tokens | $0.0100 | $0.0100 | $0.0100 |
| 100,000 tokens | $0.1000 | $0.1000 | $0.1000 |
| 1,000,000 tokens | $1.0000 | $1.0000 | $1.0000 |
Strengths
- ✓Real-time web search built in
- ✓Cites sources automatically
- ✓Up-to-date information on any topic
- ✓Good for research and fact-checking
Weaknesses
- ✗Not suitable for tasks not needing web access
- ✗Higher latency due to search step
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Perplexity Sonar Large cost?
Perplexity Sonar Large costs $1.00/1M per 1M input tokens and $1.00/1M per 1M output tokens.
What is Perplexity Sonar Large's context window?
Perplexity Sonar Large has a context window of 127K tokens, which means it can process up to 127,072 tokens in a single request.
Is Perplexity Sonar Large open source?
No, Perplexity Sonar Large is a proprietary model by Perplexity and is not open source.
What is Perplexity Sonar Large best used for?
Perplexity Sonar Large is best suited for: research, summarization, document-analysis, customer-support. Real-time web search built in.
What is Perplexity Sonar Large's ELO score?
Perplexity Sonar Large does not have an ELO score listed on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard.