Model scorecard
Perplexity sonar
Composite 65.9/100 across quality, throughput, latency, price efficiency and usable context — measured through the gateway, not vendor-reported.
B+65.9/100perplexity/sonartext · 128k context
Capability
eval compositeQuality (blended eval)74
Category: cheap
Usable context6
128k advertised window
Serving
gateway measuredThroughput57
200 output tokens/s median
Time to first token77
140ms p50
Economics
at provider costPrice efficiency74
$1.00 per 1M output tokens
Quality per dollar100
llmcloud adds $0 to these token prices.
Suggested usage
Not a default pick today. It is a reasonable explicit choice when you need this vendor specifically, or as a failover target inside auto:cheap.
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