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Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search API Pricing
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 200K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$3.00
Output / 1M tokens
$15.00
Context window
200K
Max output
8K
What would Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $84.00 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $270.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $585.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $150.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based...
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