Sonar
Sonar is an AI model from Perplexity built for agent workflows, with support for text, image input and text output. 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...
What is Sonar?
Sonar is an AI model from Perplexity that Agent Mag tracks for pricing, context window, modalities, benchmarks, and API compatibility. Builders can use this page to compare Sonar against other models for agent workflows and production deployments.
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...
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