Models / Perplexity / Sonar

Perplexity · sonar

Sonar

Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval

$1.00 in · $1.00 out

per 1M tokens · first-party price. Reference price from Perplexity, the lab's own listing.

Provider input prices run from $0.25 to $1.30 per 1M tokens. Output prices run from $1.00 to $2.50.

Context
128,000
Max output
4,096
Cache read
—
Cache write
—
Reasoning
No
Tool calls
No
Structured output
Unknown
Vision
No
Open weights
No
License
—
Released
Jan 1, 2024
Updated in source
Sep 1, 2025
Knowledge
2025-09-01
Providers
7

What this model costs per month

Prices are USD per 1M tokens. A month is 30 days. Cache hits use the cache-read rate when the model has one; otherwise the cache field is ignored.

Estimated monthly cost

Sonar

$7.50

Cache hit is ignored because this model has no cache-read price.

monthly = requests/day × 30 × (input tokens × (1 − cache hit) × input price + input tokens × cache hit × cache-read price + output tokens × output price) ÷ 1,000,000

Providers

Base rates from Models.dev. One row per provider.
ProviderInputOutputCache readCache writeStatus
DevPass$0.25$2.50—$0.25—
LLM Gateway$0.25$2.50—$0.25—
Eden AI$1.00$1.00———
Opper$1.00$1.00———
Perplexityreference$1.00$1.00———
SAP AI Core$1.00$1.00———
AI/ML API$1.30$1.30———