sonar

completions

byopenrouter

sonar

completions

Published by: perplexityProvider:

openrouter

Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features optimized for speed.

Released

Jan 21, 2025

Knowledge

Jul 25, 2024

Context

127072

Input

$1 / 1M tokens

Output

$1 / 1M tokens

Accepts: text, image

Returns: text

Released Jan 21, 2025Knowledge Cutoff: Jul 25, 2024

Context: 127072 Input: $1 / 1M tokensOutput: $1 / 1M tokensAccepts: text, imageReturns: text

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Benchmark Results for sonar

Category Performance Scores:

Science: Score 51.16 (Top 70% - Rank #224)
Writing: Score 50.04 (Top 47% - Rank #151)
Academia: Score 37.95 (Top 67% - Rank #215)
Marketing: Score 56.15 (Top 30% - Rank #96)

Overall Performance: 48.82388888888889 average score across all categories

Detailed Benchmark Scores:

Benchmark	Score	Percentile	Domain
HLE	7.30	Top 30%	General Knowledge
AIME	48.70	Top 34%	Mathematics
GPQA	47.10	Top 68%	STEM (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
SciCode	22.90	Top 71%	Scientific
MATH-500	81.70	Top 54%	Mathematics
MMLU-Pro	68.90	Top 69%	General Knowledge
LiveCodeBench	29.50	Top 63%	Programming
AAII	28.80	Top 58%	General

GPQA Score: 47.10 - Graduate-level reasoning benchmark

Model Comparison:

Provider: openrouter

Model Type: completions

Context Size: 127072 tokens

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Performance Analytics for sonar

Usage Statistics (Last 2 Days):

Total Requests: 81 API calls
Average TPS: 144.98 tokens per second
Average Response Time: 7311.20ms
Average Time to First Token: 7172.20ms
Total Cost: $0.10
Average Request Cost: $0.0013

Daily Performance Breakdown:

Date	Requests	TPS	Response Time	TTFT	Cost
11/14/2025	77	146.00	7405.20ms	7405.20ms	$0.10
11/15/2025	4	118.52	5503.30ms	2686.80ms	$0.00

Performance Summary:

Model: sonar by openrouter

Monitoring Period: 11/11/2025 to 11/18/2025

Average Daily Requests: 41

Peak Daily Requests: 77

Statistics

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Request Volume

Daily API requests

Performance (TPS)

Tokens per second

144.98 tokens/s

Category Scores

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HLE

7.3

General Knowledge

AIME

48.7

Mathematics

GPQA

47.1

STEM (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)

SciCode

22.9

Scientific

MATH-500

81.7

Mathematics

MMLU-Pro

68.9

General Knowledge

LiveCodeBench

29.5

Programming

AAII

28.8

General

Metric	HLE	AIME	GPQA	SciCode	MATH-500	MMLU-Pro	LiveCodeBench	AAII
Score	7.3	48.7	47.1	22.9	81.7	68.9	29.5	28.8

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Code Examples

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Code Samples for sonar

Python SDK Example:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.us-east-1.langdb.ai//projects/<your_project_id>",
    api_key="<your_api_key>"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="sonar",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

TypeScript SDK Example:

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
    baseURL: "https://api.us-east-1.langdb.ai//projects/<your_project_id>",
    apiKey: "<your_api_key>"
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
    model: "sonar",
    messages: [
        { role: "user", content: "Hello, how are you?" }
    ]
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

cURL Example:

curl -X POST "https://api.us-east-1.langdb.ai//projects/<your_project_id>/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_api_key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sonar",
    "messages": [
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}
    ]
  }'

Model: sonar

Provider: openrouter

API Endpoint: $https://api.us-east-1.langdb.ai/

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