Sonar API Pricing 2026
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Overview
Sonar was released on January 27, 2025. Pricing starts at $1.00 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 127K tokens. API access is available through Perplexity.
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Provider | Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Coding | MMLU | GPQA | Context | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
$1.000 | $1.000 | 29.5 | 68.9 | 47.1 | 127,072 |
* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.
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