Perplexity
Sonar API pricing
Sonar is Perplexity’s model on the API market, released 27 Jan 2025. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.
$1.00Input / 1M
$1.00Output / 1M
127KContext
114KMax output
Specification
USD per million tokens- Provider
- Perplexity
- Model id
perplexity/sonar- Input
- $1.00
- Output
- $1.00
- Cached input
- Not published
- Context window
- 127K tokens
- Maximum output
- 114K tokens
- Takes
- text, image
- Returns
- text
- Tool use
- Not reported
- Reasoning
- Not reported
- Released
- 27 Jan 2025
- First tracked
- 17 Sept 2026
At $1.00 per million input tokens, Sonar is dearer than 221 of the 326 models on the price list.
Price changes
Tracked since 17 Sept 2026No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.
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Prices and specifications come from OpenRouter’s catalogue, last read 17 Sept 2026. A provider’s own price may differ; how this is collected.