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Sonar Pro Search Pricing
Perplexity · perplexity-sonar-pro-search
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 Search preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Strong on real-time factual queries and search-augmented generation with source attribution. Handles 200k context for document-grounded tasks.
The business tradeoff
Output pricing at $15 per million tokens is high relative to peers. Latency and result quality vary with retrieval performance.
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.