Perplexity: Sonar
🇺🇸 Perplexity · Sonar
Overview
Perplexity: Sonar is a large language model API from Perplexity, part of its Sonar model family. At $1.00 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens, it sits in the budget tier — among the cheaper options for high-throughput or cost-sensitive workloads. The 127K-token context window — around 191 pages of text — comfortably handles long documents, multi-file code, or extended conversations. Beyond plain text it also accepts Image input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 10 (F grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $1.00 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $1.00 |
| Web Search | per search | $0.0050 |
- Provider
- Perplexity
- Model Family
- Sonar
- Version String
- perplexity/sonar
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text, Image
- Context Window
- 127,072 tokens
- Output Limit
- — tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.0050 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $1.00 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- Perplexity: Sonar Input price: $1/M tokens
- Perplexity: Sonar Output price: $1/M tokens
- Context window: 127,072 tokens
- Provider: Perplexity
- Model family: Sonar
- Modalities: Text, Image
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily