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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.

Context Window
127K
tokens
Pricing
Input$1.00
Output$1.00
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
VisionTools

Pricing Comparison

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

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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
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* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
15.5 (35th pct)
Coding
-
Math
-
MMLU Pro
68.9 (33th pct)
GPQA
47.1 (29th pct)
LiveCodeBench
29.5 (32th pct)
AIME
48.7 (63th pct)
Aider
-
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Frequently Asked Questions

Sonar costs $0.001000 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.001000 per 1,000 output tokens.
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