perplexity/sonar
127,072 context · $1.00/M input tokens · $1.00/M output tokens
Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features...
Pay-per-use
No upfront costs, pay only for what you use
Use the following code examples to integrate with our API:
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
base_url="https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)perplexity sonar
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | Perplexity |
| Model Type | Large Language Model (LLM) |
| Architecture | N/A |
| Context Window | 127072 tokens |
| Max Output | 4096 tokens |
| Input | Text |
| Output | Text |
| Vision | Supported |
| Function Calling | Supported |
| Token Type | Cost per Million Tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $1.1 |
| Output | $1.1 |
Base URL: https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1 API Endpoint: chat/completions Model ID: perplexity/sonar
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
base_url="https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)curl https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "perplexity/sonar",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
}'perplexity/sonar
Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features...
Input
$1 /M
Output
$1 /M
Context
127K
Max Output
4K
Vision
Supported
Access Sonar through our unified API — OpenAI-compatible, no cold starts, transparent pricing.
Pricing on WaveSpeedAI: $1.00 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens. Prompt caching and batch processing are billed separately and reduce effective cost on long, repetitive workloads.
Sonar supports up to 127K tokens of context with up to 4K tokens of output per request.
Yes. WaveSpeedAI exposes Sonar through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint at https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1. Point the official OpenAI SDK at this base URL with your WaveSpeedAI API key — no other code changes required.
Sign in to WaveSpeedAI, create an API key in Access Keys, then send a request to https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1/chat/completions with model id set to the value shown above. New accounts receive free credits to evaluate Sonar before paying per token.