sonar vs gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05

Pricing, Performance & Features Comparison

Price unit:

sonar

Authorperplexity

Context Length128K

Reasoning

Providers1

ReleasedFeb 2025

Knowledge CutoffApr 2024

License-

A lightweight, cost-effective search model optimized for quick, grounded answers with real-time web search.

Input$1

Output$1

Latency (p50)1.8s

Output Limit-

Function Calling

JSON Mode

Input-

Output-

perplexity

in$1out$1--

Latency (24h)

Success Rate (24h)

gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05

Authorgoogle

Context Length1M

Reasoning

Providers2

ReleasedFeb 2025

Knowledge CutoffJun 2024

License-

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite delivers better quality than Gemini 1.5 Flash at the same speed and cost. It has a 1M token context window and multimodal input.

Input$0.075

Output$0.3

Latency (p50)1.1s

Output Limit8K

Function Calling

JSON Mode

InputText, Image

OutputText

google-ai-studio

Cheapest

in$0.075out$0.3--

google-vertex

Cheapest

in$0.075out$0.3--