import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "perplexity/sonar", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "perplexity/sonar", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"perplexity/sonar","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
| Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Input | |
| Output | |
| Benchmark | Score | What it measures | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 8.7 | Composite score across standardised reasoning, knowledge and problem-solving evaluations, measured independently by Artificial Analysis | Source | September 12, 2026 |
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sonar This page | Chat + assistants | |||
| Reasoning + agents | ||||
| Balanced coding + agents | ||||
| Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows | ||||
| Reasoning + agents |
Sonar has a 128,000 tokens context window and can return up to 100,000 tokens.
Sonar takes image, text as input and returns text.
Use perplexity/sonar as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Sonar became available on September 9, 2025.
Sonar is priced at input $1.3 / 1M tokens, output $1.3 / 1M tokens.
Yes, Sonar can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Sonar accepts image input alongside text.
Sonar was built by Perplexity.
Sonar is a fast, search-augmented model grounded in real-time web data, suited for tasks that need up-to-date information.
No. Sonar can accept image inputs but only produces text output.
Yes. Web search is listed as one of Sonar's core capabilities.