By Perplexity
Perplexity Sonar
Perplexity Sonar searches the web and answers with sources, with search included in the price
Price per message
0.5 PMCper message(KRW 20)
Shown as x0.5 in the chat.
Anything extra, such as input beyond the included length, attachments or paid web search, is added up and shown on the send button before you send.
1 PMC is based on KRW 40, and a payment fee is added when you buy PMC (for example, 100 PMC costs KRW 4,476).
Features
- Web search included
Try it
Start from an example
- Help me sort this week of tasks by priority
- Explain interest rates so a beginner can follow
- Make this sentence sound more natural: The meeting has been pushed to next week
Nothing is sent when you click. You review the message in the chat and are charged only when you send it yourself. You can look around without signing in; you sign in when you send.
Sign up and verify your email to get 7.5 bonus PMC, enough for 15 messages with this model at its base price (bonus valid for 90 days).
Good for
- Questions that need up-to-date information
- Research with sources to check
Good to know
- Does not accept file or photo attachments.
- Web search is included in the per-message price and cannot be turned off. The model decides whether to search for each question.
Specifications
- Provider
- Perplexity
- Released
- January 2025
- Input included per message
- Up to 1,000 characters (extra input is charged)
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not published by the provider
- Input types
- Text
- PDF handling
- Does not accept attachments
- Web search
- Included in the per-message price
- Reasoning
- None
- Multiplier
- x0.5
Sources
- Provider model documentation (checked 2026-10-15)
FAQ
- How much does one message cost?
- The base price is 0.5 PMC (KRW 20) per message, shown as x0.5 in the chat. Anything extra, such as input beyond the included length, attachments or paid web search, is added up and shown on the send button before you send.
- Do I need a monthly subscription?
- No. There is no monthly subscription: you top up PMC and only what you use is deducted each time you send. 1 PMC is based on KRW 40, and a payment fee is added when you buy PMC (for example, 100 PMC costs KRW 4,476).
- Can it search the web?
- Yes. Web search is built in, with no separate charge for searching.
- Can I upload photos or files?
- No. This model does not support file or photo attachments.
- Can I see a reasoning summary?
- This model answers directly without showing a reasoning summary.