Sonar API Pricing
Perplexity · Budget · Proprietary · released 2025-01. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-11.
- Input: $1.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 127K
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0020 | $0.0020 | $200 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0028 | $0.0028 | $280 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.011 | $0.011 | $1.1K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.0043 | $0.0043 | $430 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.0050 | $0.0050 | $500 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0021 | $0.0021 | $210 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0027 | $0.0027 | $270 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.0090 | $0.0090 | $900 |
Sonar pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-11 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Perplexity (the price shown above) | $1.00 | $1.00 |
Common questions about Sonar pricing
- How much does Sonar cost?
- Sonar costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Sonar offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Sonar cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Sonar costs about $200 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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