Model Price Index
Updated 2026-07-14 · Changelog

Sonar

Perplexity

Perplexity's lightweight search-augmented model with real-time web retrieval for factual, grounded responses

$1.00

Input

$1.00

Output

per 1M tokens

Ratesper 1M tokens

Input$1.00
Output$1.00
Web Searchper 1K requests$5.00

Estimate Your Monthly Cost

A request with input and output tokens, requests / month at a % cache hit rate $65.00/mo

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Excludes cache writes and batch discounts.

Also routable via OpenRouter at the same list price. OpenRouter adds a 5.5% platform fee on pay-as-you-go credits (verified 2026-07-08).

Specifications

API Model IDsonar
Context Window128K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Modalitiestext
Capabilitiesstreaming · json-mode · search

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