Discover Perplexity: Sonar

Fast, customizable Q&A with text and image inputs.

Input: text · image Output: text Context: 127,072 tokens Release: 2025-01-27

Perplexity: Sonar, released in January 2025 by Perplexity, is a versatile model designed to handle text and image inputs, generating text outputs efficiently. With a context length of 127072 tokens, it offers a robust platform for integrating question-and-answer functionalities. Sonar is particularly suited for businesses looking for lightweight, customizable solutions that prioritize speed. Users can adjust parameters like frequency penalty, max tokens, and temperature to tailor output. Additionally, Sonar includes web search options and the ability to customize sources, making it a flexible tool for diverse applications.

Use Cases

Here are a few ways teams apply Perplexity: Sonar in practice—from fast drafting to multimodal understanding. Adapt these ideas to your workflow.

Integrate fast Q&A features into apps

Customize responses for specific needs

Enhance user experience with citations

Optimize content generation workflows

Key Features

A quick look at the capabilities that make this model useful in real projects.

Handles text and image inputs

Generates text outputs

Customizable parameters

Includes web search options

Citations and source customization

Specs

Overview

Vendor
perplexity

Model ID
perplexity/sonar

Release
2025-01-27

Modalities & context

Input
text · image

Output
text

Context
127,072 tokens

Parameters & defaults

Supported parameters: frequency_penalty, max_tokens, presence_penalty, temperature, top_k, top_p, web_search_options

Defaults: temperature 0.2, top_p 0.95

Benchmark tests: Perplexity: Sonar

We ran this model against a few representative prompts to show its range. Review the outputs below and be the judge.

Text

Prompt:

Write 150 words on how AI might positively upend work, leisure and creativity

Artificial intelligence is poised to positively upend work, leisure, and creativity by automating routine tasks, freeing humans to focus on higher-level thinking, innovation, and personal fulfillment. In the workplace, AI boosts productivity, streamlines processes, and enables employees to shift from repetitive duties to strategic, creative, and interpersonal roles. This transformation fosters sustainable business models and encourages continuous learning and upskilling. In leisure, AI personalizes experiences, curating entertainment and hobbies tailored to individual preferences, while also co-creating art, music, and stories, making creative pursuits more accessible and engaging. For creativity, AI acts as a collaborative tool, offering new starting points, overcoming creative blocks, and democratizing creative expression. Rather than replacing human ingenuity, AI amplifies it, allowing people to imagine, invent, and innovate in ways previously unimaginable. Ultimately, AI’s integration into daily life promises a future where work is more meaningful, leisure is more enriching, and creativity is more widely shared and celebrated.

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Image

Prompt:

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle.

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To “upend” means to completely disrupt, overturn, or drastically change the established order or structure of something. It implies a significant shift or alteration that can potentially have far-reaching consequences. When something is upended, it is turned upside down or transformed in a way that challenges conventional norms or expectations. The term often carries a sense of innovation, transformation, and sometimes even a hint of upheaval, indicating that the changes are not just minor adjustments but rather a fundamental reimagining of the status quo.

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