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Perplexity: Sonar Pro API Pricing
Perplexity: Sonar Pro 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 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
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...
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