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Perplexity · perplexity-sonar-pro
Input / 1M tokens
$3.00
Output / 1M tokens
$15.00
Context window
200k tokens
≈ 267 pages of text
Max output
8k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0096
1,000 requests / month$9.60/mo10,000 requests / month$96.00/mo100,000 requests / month$960.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Sonar Pro preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Performs well on research and question-answering tasks that benefit from integrated web retrieval and citation. Supports long context with vision inputs for document analysis.
The business tradeoff
Output token pricing is high relative to many peers. Latency and result quality can vary with search dependency and external data freshness.
Cheaper from Perplexity
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.