perplexity / text-generation API-only released 2025-03-07

Sonar Pro

Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro) For enterprises seeking more advanced capabilities, the Sonar Pro API can handle in-depth, multi-step queries with added extensibility, like...

Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
200K
AA Intelligence
7.6
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
$3.00
input / 1M
$15.00
output / 1M
—
cached input / 1M
$18.00
1M in + 1M out
Context window
200,000 tokens
Max output
8,000 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
Perplexity · $3.00 / $15.00
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
7.6 / — / —
✗ 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: $3.00 input · $15.00 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

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

AA Intelligence Index
7.6
AA Coding Index
—
AA Agentic Index
—

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
Perplexity unknown 200K $3.00 $15.00 100% —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
perplexity
Released on OpenRouter
2025-03-07
Context window
200,000 tokens
Max output
8,000 tokens
Input
text, image
Output
text
Tokenizer
Other
Moderated by provider
No
OpenRouter id
perplexity/sonar-pro
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.