Perplexity

Sonar Pro

Perplexity's Sonar Pro search-grounded model for deeper answers with citations; priced via Perplexity's Sonar API hosts (OpenRouter and peers).

ActiveReleased January 21, 2025
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: Sonar Pro model, Sonar structured outputs, Sonar custom-tool behavior, OpenRouter offer metadata

Price per 1M tokens via Perplexity (OpenRouter)
$3 in / $15 out
Context window200,000
Max output8,000
Input
  • Text
  • Image
Output
  • Text

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$3 / M
Output$15 / M

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Estimated monthly cost
$900
at current list prices
Fresh input$600
Output$300
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Provider

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PlatformInput / MOutput / MBatchAccess
Perplexity
$3$15-via OpenRouter

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $3 / $15 per 1M since August 7, 2026.

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$2 / $8 in / out per 1M
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$1 / $1 in / out per 1M

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