Perplexity (Sonar API)
- Categories
- Model labs
- Owned by
- Perplexity AI (private)
- HQ
- US
- Website
- https://www.perplexity.ai
- Pricing page
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
- Fee model
- per_token+per_request
- Fees
- Token pricing plus per-request search fee depending on search_context_size (per 1k requests): Sonar $5/$8/$12, Sonar Pro & Sonar Reasoning Pro $6/$10/$14 (low/medium/high). Deep Research: citation tokens $2/M, reasoning tokens $3/M, $5 per 1k search queries.
- Free tier
- no
- OpenAI-compatible API
- yes
- Notes
- Sonar Chat Completions is being replaced by the Agent API; Sonar supported until 2026-09-27. Agent API resells third-party models (router-like; not recorded here) and lists perplexity/sonar at $0.25 in / $2.50 out / $0.0625 cached. Search API $5 per 1k requests. Embeddings pplx-embed-* priced per token.
- Sources
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar.md collected 2026-09-18
LLM prices (8 models, USD per 1M tokens)
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b |
$0.008 | — | — | — | ✓ src |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-4b pplx-embed-context-v1-4b |
$0.05 | — | — | — | ✓ src |
| pplx-embed-v1-0.6b pplx-embed-v1-0.6b |
$0.004 | — | — | — | ✓ src |
| pplx-embed-v1-4b pplx-embed-v1-4b |
$0.03 | — | — | — | ✓ src |
| Sonar sonar |
$1 | $1 | — | 128k | ✓ src src2 |
| Sonar Deep Research sonar-deep-research |
$2 | $8 | — | 128k | ✓ src src2 |
| Sonar Pro sonar-pro |
$3 | $15 | — | 200k | ✓ src src2 |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro sonar-reasoning-pro |
$2 | $8 | — | 128k | ✓ src src2 |