Perplexity
Answer engine that fine-tunes Sonar models for search-grounded answers on top of open-weights bases.
- Provider rank
- #98
- by best model
- Best index
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- Ranked models
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- 0 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
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Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
Not enough dated, ranked models to draw a timeline.
Next release
Not enough dated releases to estimate a cadence.
Head to head
Perplexity vs OpenAI
Perplexity vs Anthropic
Perplexity vs Moonshot AI
Perplexity vs Meta
Perplexity vs Google
Perplexity vs Alibaba
Perplexity vs xAI
Perplexity vs Zhipu AI
Perplexity vs DeepSeek
Perplexity vs NVIDIAModels
Every Perplexity model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
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| 1 | Sonar ProthinkingPerplexity | – | $3.50 | 51 | 3.10 s | 128k | 2024-01-01 | – |
| 2 | Perplexity Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity | – | $3.50 | – | – | 128k | 2025-02-01 | – |
| 3 | Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity | – | $6.00 | 41 | 4.96 s | 200k | – | – |