Sonar Small Online
Perplexity chatSonar Small Online is a Perplexity chat model.It supports a 12,000-token context windowwith up to 12,000 output tokens. and output at $0.280/M tokens. Route Sonar Small Online via Future AGI's Agent Command Center for unified observability, caching, and 15 routing strategies including cost-optimized fallback.
Estimate Sonar Small Online spend
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Estimate uses $0.000000/M input · $0.2800/M output. Provider pricing changes. Production costs vary with retries, streaming overhead, and tool-call rounds.
Want this for free? Cache + route via Agent Command Center — first 100K requests and 100K cache hits free every month.
Pricing
Per-token rates, expressed in USD per 1M tokens. Verified May 12, 2026.
| Input | — | |
| Output | $0.280/M |
Limits
- Context window
- 12,000 tokens
- Max input
- 12,000 tokens
- Max output
- 12,000 tokens
- Modalities
- text
Capabilities
- Function calling — not advertised
- Parallel tool calls — not advertised
- Vision input — not advertised
- Audio input — not advertised
- Audio output — not advertised
- PDF input — not advertised
- Streaming ✓ supported
- Structured output — not advertised
- Prompt caching — not advertised
- Reasoning — not advertised
Where it's strong
Watch out for
- !high cost — input + output rates are in the top 91% of priced chat peers; consider a cheaper sibling for high-volume workloads
- !limited context — 12,000-token window is in the bottom quartile; not ideal for long documents or large RAG
- !agentic workflows — no advertised function-calling; use a tool-capable model and route via Agent Command Center for fallback
- !small context (under 16K tokens)
- !strict structured output — no JSON-schema enforcement, expect retry loops
Benchmarks pending
We haven't logged public benchmark scores for Sonar Small Online yet. Have one to contribute? Submit a source — citations help us prioritise.
Call Sonar Small Online via Agent Command Center
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Routing, fallback, semantic caching, guardrails, and cost tracking come along for the ride. First 100K requests + 100K cache hits free every month.
agentcc / @agentcc/client). Per-call metadata — provider, cost, latency, cache hit, request id — is returned on x-agentcc-* response headers, so any HTTP client can read it.# Sonar Small Online via the Agent Command Center Python SDK
# pip install agentcc
import os
from agentcc import AgentCC
client = AgentCC(
api_key=os.environ["AGENTCC_API_KEY"], # from app.futureagi.com → Settings → API Keys
base_url="https://gateway.futureagi.com/v1",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar-small-online",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Sonar Small Online!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
print(f"Tokens: {resp.usage.total_tokens}")
# Per-call gateway metadata is returned on x-agentcc-* response headers.
# When you need it programmatically, use .with_raw_response to get them:
raw = client.chat.completions.with_raw_response.create(
model="perplexity/sonar-small-online",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Same call, but I want the headers."}],
)
print("Provider:", raw.headers.get("x-agentcc-provider"))
print("Latency:", raw.headers.get("x-agentcc-latency-ms"), "ms")
print("Cost: ", raw.headers.get("x-agentcc-cost"), "USD")
print("Cache: ", raw.headers.get("x-agentcc-cache"))AGENTCC_API_KEY with a key fromapp.futureagi.com.Gateway docs ↗Compare with similar models
Sonar Small Online doesn't have a public Arena ELO score yet, so we group by provider only — quality-tier comparisons need a benchmark.
FAQ
How much does Sonar Small Online cost?
Input is priced at $0.000000 per 1M tokens and output at $0.280 per 1M tokens (Perplexity, last verified May 12, 2026).
What is the context window of Sonar Small Online?
Sonar Small Online supports a 12,000-token context window with up to 12,000 output tokens.
Does Sonar Small Online support function calling?
Sonar Small Online does not currently advertise function-calling support. For agentic workloads, prefer a tool-calling-capable model and route via Agent Command Center for fallback.
Is Sonar Small Online good for production?
Sonar Small Online is best evaluated against your own production traces. Pipe traffic through Agent Command Center to compare it head-to-head against alternatives in shadow mode.
How can I route to Sonar Small Online with fallback?
Use Agent Command Center: a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that supports cost-optimized routing, latency-aware retries, model fallback, and shadow traffic. Configure once, swap models without app changes.
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