Model comparison
Perplexity Sonar vs o3
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Perplexity Sonar
Not scored
value score
o3
93
value score
Perplexity Sonar ctx
—
o3 ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- o393
Attribute tape
| Field | Perplexity Sonar | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Perplexity | OpenAI |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | — |
| Price | — | $10/1M in · $40/1M out |
| Value score | — | 93 |
| Summary | Sonar is Perplexity AI's in-house search-grounded model family and developer API that queries the live web at inference time and returns synthesized, cited answers. It is optimized for factuality, low latency, and readability rather than general-purpose frontier capabilities. | OpenAI reasoning model focused on hard problems. |