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Sonar Pro API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 22, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

Sonar Pro was released on March 7, 2025. Pricing starts at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 200K tokens. API access is available through Perplexity.

Context Window
200K
tokens
Pricing
Input$3.00
Output$15.00
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output85 tok/s
TTFT1.56s
median latency
Capabilities
Vision

Pricing Comparison

Compare Sonar Pro with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$3.000
$15.000
27.5
75.5
57.8
200,000
Try
$2.500
$10.000
8,000
Try
$2.500
$10.000
8,000
Try
$2.500
$12.500
31.7
73.3
56.9
1,000,000
Try
$2.500
$10.000
31.7
52.1
128,000
Try
$3.000
$15.000
131,072
Try
$3.000
$15.000
200,000
Try
$3.000
$15.000
59.0
86.0
72.7
1,000,000
Try
$3.000
$15.000
81.9
86.6
87.7
256,000
Try
$3.000
$15.000
42.5
79.9
69.3
131,072
Try
$3.000
$15.000
44.9
83.7
68.3
1,000,000
Try

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

Compare Providers

Sonar Pro is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

2
Providers
$3.000
Cheapest Input/M
$15.000
Cheapest Output/M
Perplexity
Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
Perplexity
Perplexity
Best Price
$3.000
$15.000
100.0%
V
Vercel
Best Price
$3.000
$15.000
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

Compare Sonar Pro's benchmark performance against all models.

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
15.2 (30th pct)
Coding
-
Math
-
MMLU Pro
75.5 (48th pct)
GPQA
57.8 (44th pct)
LiveCodeBench
27.5 (23th pct)
AIME
29.0 (49th pct)
Aider
-
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sonar Pro costs $0.003000 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.015000 per 1,000 output tokens.
Sonar Pro is available from 2 provider(s). Perplexity offers the best price.
We compare Sonar Pro with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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