United States

Perplexity

Three different products: Sonar search, an orchestrator, and Decider.

HQ
San Francisco
Founded
2022
Weights
mixed
Models listed
9
Ships decision modelsMany model typesReasoning modelsWebsiteDocs

Sonar answers with search. The Orchestrator API fails over between deployments of a model you already picked. Decider returns probabilities for questions you wrote. Those are three products.

Models

Perplexity

Perplexity: Decider Flash V1.2

decisionopen

High-volume routing where the input price matters more than model size

Input
$0.010 / M
Context
262K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Decider V1.2

decisionopen

Tickets, reviews, and screenshots that need a yes/no, a choice, or a rubric score

Input
$0.020 / M
Context
262K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Embed V1 4B

embeddings

Turns text into vectors for search.

Input
$0.030 / M
Context
32K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Embed V1 0.6B

embeddings

Turns text into vectors for search.

Input
$0.0040 / M
Context
32K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search

reasoning

A chat model that spends extra steps before it answers.

Input
$3 / M
Context
200K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro

reasoning

A chat model that spends extra steps before it answers.

Input
$2 / M
Context
128K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Sonar Pro

chat

Writes text. Use it when the answer is a paragraph, a plan, or a tool call.

Input
$3 / M
Context
200K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research

reasoning

A chat model that spends extra steps before it answers.

Input
$2 / M
Context
128K

Perplexity

Perplexity: Sonar

chat

Writes text. Use it when the answer is a paragraph, a plan, or a tool call.

Input
$1 / M
Context
127K