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Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro API Pricing
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $8.00 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 128K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
$8.00
Context window
128K
Max output
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What would Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $48.00 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $160.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $360.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $96.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning 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) Sonar Reasoning Pro is a premier reasoning model powered by DeepSeek R1 with Chain of Thought (CoT). Designed for...
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