perplexity / text-generation API-only released 2025-01-27

Sonar

Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features...

Input / 1M
$1.00
Output / 1M
$1.00
Context
127.1K
AA Intelligence
7.7
Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image → text View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$1.00
input / 1M
$1.00
output / 1M
—
cached input / 1M
$2.00
1M in + 1M out
Context window
127,072 tokens
Max output
114,364 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
Perplexity · $1.00 / $1.00
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
7.7 / — / —
✗ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✗ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)
Current: $1.00 input · $1.00 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index
7.7
AA Coding Index
—
AA Agentic Index
—

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
Perplexity unknown 127.1K $1.00 $1.00 100% —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
perplexity
Released on OpenRouter
2025-01-27
Context window
127,072 tokens
Max output
114,364 tokens
Input
text, image
Output
text
Tokenizer
Other
Moderated by provider
No
OpenRouter id
perplexity/sonar
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.