Sonar Pro Search API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 3, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

Sonar Pro Search was released on October 30, 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

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

Vision

Pricing Comparison

Compare Sonar Pro Search with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
P Perplexity	Sonar Pro Search	$3.000	$15.000	—	—	—	200,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o (2024-08-06)	$2.500	$10.000	31.7	—	52.1	128,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-5 Image Mini	$2.500	$2.000	—	—	—	400,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o Audio	$2.500	$10.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try in Playground
CO Cohere	Command A	$2.500	$10.000	28.7	71.2	52.7	256,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o Search Preview	$2.500	$10.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try in Playground
AM Amazon	Nova Premier 1.0	$2.500	$12.500	31.7	73.3	56.9	1,000,000	Try in Playground
IF Inflection	Inflection 3 Pi	$2.500	$10.000	—	—	—	8,000	Try in Playground
IF Inflection	Inflection 3 Productivity	$2.500	$10.000	—	—	—	8,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o	$2.500	$10.000	31.7	—	52.1	128,000	Try in Playground
X Xai	Grok 3 Beta	$3.000	$15.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try in Playground

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

Compare Providers

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

Providers

$3.000

Cheapest Input/M

$15.000

Cheapest Output/M

Perplexity

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
Perplexity Best Price	$3.000	$15.000	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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