Perplexity
Sonar Reasoning
Released Jan 21, 2025 · 14B tokens this week · 1 provider
Overview
A reasoning-tuned search model that plans a query strategy, reads sources, then explains how it got there. Suited to research questions that need several hops across the web. Slower than plain Sonar but much better at synthesis.
Providers
Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic
| PROVIDER | MAX OUT | OUTPUT /M | QUANT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PerplexityCheapest | 128K | 8K | $1.00 | $5.00 | 1,240ms | 48 | 99.50% | Full |
Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.
Price comparison
Blended $ per 1M tokens
Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.
Call it
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go
curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "perplexity/sonar-reasoning",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
]
}'