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perplexity/sonar

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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...

Evaluation Rating
9.0/10
Composite Score
Context Length
124.1 KB tokens
Input Price (1M Tokens)
R 22.5909
Output Price (1M Tokens)
R 22.5909
API Protocol
OpenAI Compatible

Interactive ZAR Cost Calculator

Estimate real-time cost in South African Rands based on your expected prompt and completion token counts.

Prompt Tokens (Input) 10,000 tokens
Completion Tokens (Output) 2,000 tokens
Estimated Cost Per Request
R 0.0000
0 µR debited from prepaid wallet

Standardized Capability Benchmarks

Standardized multi-suite performance evaluations calibrated out of 10 against international LLM leaderboards.

Chat & Conversational Reasoning 9.0/10
Calibrated against LMSYS Chatbot Arena human preference Elo
Coding & Software Architecture 9.0/10
Calibrated against HumanEval (Pass@1) unit tests and SWE-bench
Structured JSON & Tool Calling 9.0/10
Berkeley Function Calling Benchmark (BFCL) schema compliance
Academic Knowledge & MMLU 9.0/10
MMLU-Pro Multitask Professional Knowledge across 57 disciplines

1-Click Quickstart Code Snippets

Copy and paste directly into your application. Uses OpenAI standard SDK formats.

curl https://aiproxy.farmazone.co.za/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-live-your_api_key_here" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity/sonar",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms."}
    ]
  }'
Your API Key: sk-live-your_api_key_here
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