Sonar
Perplexity
Perplexity's lightweight offering with search grounding, quicker and cheaper than Sonar Pro.
- Language
- Vision
- Web search
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Context
- 127K
- Max output
- 8K
- Input / 1M
- $0.250
- Output / 1M
- $2.50
Quickstart
Point any OpenAI-compatible client at Maxynetic Systems and pass perplexity/sonar as the model.
curl https://api.maxynetic.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MAXYNETIC_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "perplexity/sonar",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain routing in one line." }]
}'Pricing
Billed per token with no markup on the underlying provider rate.
Input
Per 1M prompt tokens
$0.250
Output
Per 1M completion tokens
$2.50
Cache write
Per 1M tokens written to cache
$0.063
A 1M-token prompt with 250K tokens of output costs about $0.875.