Perplexity LLM API pricing
Every model Perplexity serves, with its pricing per 1M tokens and the exact model ID to copy. Sorted cheapest input first, with models Perplexity lists no paid price for at the end. Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel.
Models served
20
on this provider
Cheapest input
$0.07
per 1M tokens
Cheapest output
$0.20
per 1M tokens
Max context
200K
tokens
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.
| Model ID | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral 7B Instruct | Mistral | 4K | $0.07 | $0.28 | perplexity/mistral-7b-instruct |
| Mixtral 8x7B Instruct | Mistral | 33K | $0.07 | $0.28 | perplexity/mixtral-8x7b-instruct |
| Pplx 7B Chat | Perplexity | 8K | $0.07 | $0.28 | perplexity/pplx-7b-chat |
| Sonar Small Chat | Perplexity | 16K | $0.07 | $0.28 | perplexity/sonar-small-chat |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Meta | 200K | $0.20 | $0.20 | perplexity/llama-3.1-8b-instruct |
| Codellama 34B Instruct | Meta | 16K | $0.35 | $1.40 | perplexity/codellama-34b-instruct |
| Sonar Medium Chat | Perplexity | 16K | $0.60 | $1.80 | perplexity/sonar-medium-chat |
| Codellama 70B Instruct | Meta | 16K | $0.70 | $2.80 | perplexity/codellama-70b-instruct |
| Llama 2 70B Chat | Meta | 4K | $0.70 | $2.80 | perplexity/llama-2-70b-chat |
| Pplx 70B Chat | Perplexity | 4K | $0.70 | $2.80 | perplexity/pplx-70b-chat |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | Meta | 131K | $1.00 | $1.00 | perplexity/llama-3.1-70b-instruct |
| Sonar | Perplexity | 128K | $1.00 | $1.00 | perplexity/sonar |
| Sonar Reasoning | Perplexity | 128K | $1.00 | $5.00 | perplexity/sonar-reasoning |
| Sonar Deep Research | Perplexity | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | perplexity/sonar-deep-research |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | Perplexity | 128K | $2.00 | $8.00 | perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro |
| Sonar Pro | Perplexity | 200K | $3.00 | $15.00 | perplexity/sonar-pro |
| Pplx 70B Online | Perplexity | 4K | n/a | $2.80 | perplexity/pplx-70b-online |
| Pplx 7B Online | Perplexity | 4K | n/a | $0.28 | perplexity/pplx-7b-online |
| Sonar Medium Online | Perplexity | 12K | n/a | $1.80 | perplexity/sonar-medium-online |
| Sonar Small Online | Perplexity | 12K | n/a | $0.28 | perplexity/sonar-small-online |
Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · catalogue refreshed Oct 14, 2026
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