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
| Model | Endpoint | Context | Input /M | Output /M | Cached input /M | Cache write /M | Uptime 1d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decider Flash V1.2 | perplexity | 262K | $0.01 | $0.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Decider V1.2 | perplexity | 262K | $0.02 | $0.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Embed V1 0.6B | perplexity/int8 | 32K | $0.004 | $0.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Embed V1 4B | perplexity/int8 | 32K | $0.03 | $0.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Sonar | perplexity | 127K | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Sonar Deep Research | perplexity | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Sonar Pro | perplexity | 200K | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Sonar Pro Search | perplexity | 200K | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 100.00% |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | perplexity | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | 100.00% |