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 optimized for speed.
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Input Price
$1/M
Output Price
$1/M
Context
127K
Released
Jan 27, 2025
Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:
Use perplexity/sonar with the OpenRouter API:
OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.
In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.
For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.
Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:
Sends a request for a model response for the given chat conversation. Supports both streaming and non-streaming modes.
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completionsBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsperplexity/sonarCreates a streaming or non-streaming response using the OpenAI Responses API format.
Docshttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responsesBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsperplexity/sonarCreates a message using the Anthropic Messages API format. Supports text, images, PDFs, tools, and extended thinking.
Docshttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/messagesBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsperplexity/sonar| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
max_tokens | integer | — | This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response. |
temperature | float | 1 | This setting influences the variety in the model's responses. |
top_p | float | 1 | This setting limits the model's choices to a percentage of likely tokens: only the top tokens whose probabilities add up to P. |
top_k | integer | 0 | This limits the model's choice of tokens at each step, making it choose from a smaller set. |
frequency_penalty | float | 0 | This setting aims to control the repetition of tokens based on how often they appear in the input. |
presence_penalty | float | 0 | Adjusts how often the model repeats specific tokens already used in the input. |
web_search_options | map | — | Configures native web search options for models and providers that support web-connected answers. |
Weekly Tokens
2.18B