Perplexity Sonar

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Sonar is Perplexity's lightweight search model built for speed and efficiency. It delivers grounded answers with real-time web search and citations, making it well suited to straightforward informational tasks like fact-checking, current events, and quick summaries. The model supports text input and structured output generation. It is best for fast information retrieval and quick definitions rather than deep analytical work. Its 128K context window handles substantial conversations while keeping responses fast.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
128K
Max output
8K
Input price
$1.00 /1M
Output price
$1.00 /1M
Released
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

Perplexity Sonar runs on 1 route through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USZero data retentionNo$1.00$1.00

Uptime and availability

Perplexity Sonar runs on a single route through the qynio gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

99.57%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. .

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider qynio monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Perplexity Sonar has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

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Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go β€” no action required. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
wallets

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores β€” composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Intelligence Index9.4
Reasoning & knowledge
MMLU-Pro
69%
GPQA Diamond
47%
Humanity's Last Exam
5%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
30%
SciCode
23%

Get started

Call Perplexity Sonar through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "perplexity/sonar",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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