Sonar is an AI model developed by Perplexity (United States), first published in February 2025. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as question answering, chat, language modeling/generation and 2 more.
Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. The model has 70,000,000,000 parameters.
Access: API access. Its weights are not openly released. It is built on top of Llama 3.3 70B. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.
| 01 | LiveBench | Global average | 46.9 |
| 02 | Deepresearchbench | Average score | 0.38 |