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.
Pricing Comparison
Compare Sonar with 10 similar models by price.
Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)
11 models
Provider | Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Coding | MMLU | GPQA | Context | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
$1.000 | $1.000 | 29.5 | 68.9 | 47.1 | 127,072 | |||
AM | $0.800 | $3.200 | 23.3 | 69.1 | 49.9 | 300,000 | ||
$0.800 | $4.000 | 31.4 | 63.4 | 40.8 | 200,000 | |||
$0.850 | $1.250 | — | — | — | 256,000 | |||
$0.850 | $3.400 | — | — | — | 131,072 | |||
$0.880 | $0.880 | — | — | — | 32,768 | |||
MO | $0.900 | $1.900 | — | — | — | 262,144 | ||
AR | $0.900 | $3.300 | — | — | — | 131,072 | ||
$1.000 | $3.000 | — | — | — | 256,000 | |||
$1.000 | $5.000 | 51.1 | 80.0 | 64.6 | 200,000 | |||
$1.000 | $3.000 | 54.6 | 72.9 | 53.6 | 131,072 |
* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.
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Sonar is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.
Provider Pricing
3 models
Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|
Perplexity Best Price | $1.000 | $1.000 | 100.0% |
V Vercel Best Price | $1.000 | $1.000 | - |
 OpenRouter Best Price | $1.000 | $1.000 | - |
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