Perplexity: Sonar
Provider: perplexity · perplexity/sonar
Input
$1 /1M
Output
$1 /1M
Context
127,072 tokens
How Perplexity: Sonar pricing compares
At $1 / 1M output tokens, Perplexity: Sonar is the 1st-cheapest of 5 perplexity models we track. It's cheaper than 66% of the 392 paid models on computetrail (133rd-cheapest overall). Output costs 1.0× its input price ($1 / 1M in). For a typical 3:1 input-to-output workload that works out to about $1.00 / 1M blended. Its 127,072 tokens context window ranks 349th-largest of 392 models with a published limit.
Output price history
Across 60 daily snapshots since 2026-06-29, the output price has held steady at $1 / 1M — no change so far.
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Prices are recorded daily from public provider data via OpenRouter and normalized to USD per 1M tokens. See methodology.