Perplexity
Sonar
Sonar is a language model from Perplexity, released January 2025. Perplexity describes it as “Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources.”
12
replies recorded
2
questions answered
0
answers no other model gave
Fun facts
Sonar’s favorite word is lexicon, and has every single time. If English kept one word, Sonar would keep the, without fail.
Sonar’s canon
What it says every single time
Favorite word
“lexicon”every single time
The one word it would keep
“the”every single time
About Sonar
- Maker
- Perplexity · San Francisco
- Released
- January 2025
- Size
- mid-size, by price class
- Context window
- 127,072 tokens
- Takes in
- text, image
- Also from Perplexity
- Sonar Reasoning Pro
Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.
Everything on file
Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.
Favorite word 2 questions
Favorite word
“lexicon”every single time
The one word it would keep
“the”every single time
Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.