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Sonar Reasoning Pro Pricing
Perplexity · perplexity-sonar-reasoning-pro
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
$8.00
Context window
128k tokens
≈ 171 pages of text
Max output
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What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0056
1,000 requests / month$5.60/mo10,000 requests / month$56.00/mo100,000 requests / month$560.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Sonar Reasoning Pro preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Strong on search-augmented reasoning and factual queries that benefit from real-time retrieval. Handles 128k context at moderate input cost.
The business tradeoff
Output pricing is 4x input; latency and result quality vary with external search dependency.
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.