When was Perplexity Sonar released?

Perplexity released Perplexity Sonar on 21 Jan 2025. It is available through the Opper gateway.

Does Perplexity Sonar support zero data retention?

Yes. Perplexity Sonar is available with zero data retention on Perplexity through the Opper gateway.

Where is Perplexity Sonar hosted?

Perplexity Sonar runs on US hosting routes through the Opper gateway.

Is Perplexity Sonar trained on prompts and outputs?

No. Every hosting route for Perplexity Sonar is configured so customer prompts and outputs are not used to train models by default.

Is a GDPR DPA available for Perplexity Sonar?

Yes. A GDPR Data Processing Agreement is available on at least one route serving Perplexity Sonar. Contact hello@opper.ai to receive it.

Perplexity Sonar

by Perplexity

All Perplexity releases

Sonar is Perplexity's lightweight search model built for speed and efficiency. It delivers grounded answers with real-time web search and citations, making it well suited to straightforward informational tasks like fact-checking, current events, and quick summaries. The model supports text input and structured output generation. It is best for fast information retrieval and quick definitions rather than deep analytical work. Its 128K context window handles substantial conversations while keeping responses fast.

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Key info

Input

Output

Features

Context window

128K

Max output

Input price

$0.25 /1M$0.06 cache read

Output price

$2.50 /1M

Released

21 Jan 2025

Web search

Via Opper

US residency available on Perplexity
Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
No training by default
GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Perplexity Sonar runs on 2 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Input	Output	Cache read
Perplexity	Multi		No	$0.25	$2.50	$0.06
Perplexity	US		No	$1.00	$1.00	Input price

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=perplexity-agent%2Fsonar

Uptime and availability

Perplexity Sonar runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

99.91%route uptime, last 30 days

Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Perplexity Sonar has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Perplexity — Multi-region

Content is retained: provider logging. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; unknown.

Zero data retention: Retained: provider logging.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: Other
Caching: Content cached for replay
Transfer mechanism: unknown

Perplexity — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: On by default, keeps nothing
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: SCCs

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores: the Intelligence Index and the individual evaluations behind it, grouped by skill.

Global rank#299 of 508 LLMs

TierEfficient

Intelligence Index (previous version)8.7

Coding

LiveCodeBench

30%

Science & reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam

GPQA Diamond

62%

Knowledge

MMLU-Pro

69%

See full leaderboard →Benchmarks via Artificial Analysis · View on AA

Get started

Call Perplexity Sonar through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.

Perplexity Sonar is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

1import OpenAI from "openai";
2
3const client = new OpenAI({
4  apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
5  baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
6});
7
8const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
9  model: "perplexity-agent/sonar",
10  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
11});
12console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);