Sonar Pro

PerplexityReleased Jan 1, 2024KnowledgeSep 2025
Context
200K
Max output
8K
Serving providers
3
Cheapest input
$3.00 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
GPQA Diamond58%default—
Humanity's Last Exam7%default—
LiveCodeBenchArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202628%——
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 202676%default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202623%——
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
OpenRouter$3.00$15.001
PerplexityCheapest$3.00$15.001
Standardperplexity/sonar-pro
ComponentUnitStandard
Text input/1M tok$3.00
Text output/1M tok$15.00
VercelVercel reseller quote$3.00$15.001

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$5.00$10.00$15.00Feb 12Jul 30Jun 22$15.00$3.00

Cost calculator

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$1,800
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Model IDs

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perplexity/sonar-properplexity/sonar-provercel_ai_gateway/perplexity/sonar-pro

Frequently asked questions

Sonar Pro pricing, context and availability

How much does Sonar Pro cost?

Sonar Pro costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens from Perplexity, and $15.00 per 1M output tokens from Perplexity.

What is the context window of Sonar Pro?

Sonar Pro accepts up to 200K tokens of context and can return up to 8K output tokens.

Which providers serve Sonar Pro?

Sonar Pro is available from 3 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Perplexity is currently the cheapest.

What can Sonar Pro do?

Sonar Pro supports web search.

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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026

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