Llama3 Sonar 8B

Perplexity chat Free

API ID: perplexity/llama-3-sonar-small-32k-chat

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Llama3 Sonar 8B

Llama3 Sonar 8B is a budget-friendly general-purpose model from Perplexity with standard context (33k), suitable for conversations, content creation, and general AI tasks.

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Model Specifications

Context Length
33k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2024-05-14
Capabilities
chat
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/llama-3-sonar-small-32k-chat",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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