
Perplexity
AI answer engine company behind Perplexity and the Sonar models
perplexity.aiSan Francisco, United States
Perplexity is a San Francisco startup that runs a conversational search engine which answers questions with cited web sources. It also offers the Sonar family of search-grounded models through an API and has released open-weight embedding models.
- Founded
- 2022
- Type
- Private company
- Founders
- Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski
- AI lab
- Inference provider
- 11 hosted endpoints
Catalogue
All models by Perplexity
11 models · 1–11
| Select models to compare | Model | Released | Context | Input /M | Output /M | Parameters | Type | I/O | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 12, 2026 | 262K | $0.00 | $0.00 | 4.5B | Decisions | text, image → decisions | Open weights | ||
| November 12, 2026 | 262K | $0.00 | $0.00 | 26.1B | Decisions | text, image → decisions | Open weights | ||
| October 16, 2026 | 262K | $0.01 | $0.00 | 4.5B | Decisions | text, image → decisions | Open weights | ||
| October 16, 2026 | 262K | $0.02 | $0.00 | 26.1B | Decisions | text, image → decisions | Open weights | ||
| February 26, 2026 | 32K | $0.004 | $0.00 | 0.6B | Embeddings | text → embeddings | Open weights | ||
| February 26, 2026 | 32K | $0.03 | $0.00 | 4B | Embeddings | text → embeddings | Open weights | ||
| October 30, 2025 | 200K | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | Text | text, image → text | Closed | ||
| February 1, 2025 | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | Text | text → text | Closed | ||
| January 1, 2024 | 127K | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | Text | text, image → text | Closed | ||
| January 1, 2024 | 200K | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | Text | text, image → text | Closed | ||
| January 1, 2024 | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | Text | text, image → text | Closed |