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Perplexity Sonar Large

by Perplexity· Released 2025-01
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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.

Input Price
$1.00/1M
per 1M tokens
Output Price
$1.00/1M
per 1M tokens
Context Window
127K tokens
max tokens
ELO Score
LMSYS Arena

Pricing Breakdown

VolumeInput CostOutput CostCombined (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

Best For

researchsummarizationdocument analysiscustomer support

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.