Perplexity Sonar

Provider

Statuspublic

AA Intelligence Indexn/a

Releasedn/a

Context windown/a

Modalitiesn/a

API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

Speedn/a

AccessFREE: unlimited basic cited searches + 5 Pro searches/day

The score shown is a WhichAI estimate from adjacent benchmarks, not an official measurement.

In one line

Search-answer engine rather than a chat model: best-in-class citation accuracy - a smarter, cited replacement for googling.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).