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Perplexity: Sonar API Pricing

Official PricingCall via OpenRouter

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-...

Base Input Price$1.00/ 1M tokens
Base Output Price$1.00/ 1M tokens
Prompt Cache Read$1.000-0% discount
Batch API RateN/A24h async offload

Inference Hosts & Aggregator Providers

Compare rates and latency across direct APIs, OpenRouter, and hyperscale cloud providers

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Provider NameInput / 1MOutput / 1MPrompt CachingAccess Endpoint
Perplexity Direct$1.00$1.00Not availableConnect
OpenRouter$1.00$1.00Not availableConnect

Head-to-Head Comparisons for Perplexity: Sonar

Perplexity: Sonar vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol$1/M vs $2/M
Perplexity: Sonar vs GPT-4o (Omni)$1/M vs $2.5/M
Perplexity: Sonar vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet$1/M vs $3/M
Perplexity: Sonar vs DeepSeek-V3 (deepseek-chat)$1/M vs $0.27/M