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Perplexity · perplexity-sonar
Input / 1M tokens
$1.00
Output / 1M tokens
$1.00
Context window
127,072 tokens
≈ 169 pages of text
Max output
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What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0016
1,000 requests / month$1.60/mo10,000 requests / month$16.00/mo100,000 requests / month$160.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Sonar preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Effective for retrieval-augmented factual queries and citation-backed responses at low cost with 127k context.
The business tradeoff
Reasoning depth trails frontier models on complex tasks; performance tied to external search quality and latency.
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.