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Perplexity: Sonar Pro API Pricing

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 enterp...

Base Input Price$3.00/ 1M tokens

Base Output Price$15.00/ 1M tokens

Prompt Cache Read$3.000-0% discount

Batch API RateN/A24h async offload

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Provider Name	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Prompt Caching	Access Endpoint
Perplexity Direct	$3.00	$15.00	Not available	Connect
OpenRouter	$3.00	$15.00	Not available	Connect

Head-to-Head Comparisons for Perplexity: Sonar Pro

Perplexity: Sonar Pro vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol$3/M vs $2/M

Perplexity: Sonar Pro vs GPT-4o (Omni)$3/M vs $2.5/M

Perplexity: Sonar Pro vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet$3/M vs $3/M

Perplexity: Sonar Pro vs DeepSeek-V3 (deepseek-chat)$3/M vs $0.27/M