Sonar pricing.
prices as of · 13 providers · 13 prices
Perplexity's Sonar holds 128k tokens of context. Closed weights: only Perplexity and its licensed partners run it, so every other price below resells the same service.
Sonar costs $1 in and $1 out per million tokens from Perplexity, and no provider goes below it with a reason we can point at.
Perplexity list price
$4/M tokens
$1 in · $1 out
read · 13% above the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$4
Nobody goes below Perplexity's price for a reason we can point at, so the list price is the one to beat. Every other price is below.
What it costs for your work
Perplexity list price
$0.66a month
cheapest we can explain
none
difference
no list price
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Sonar
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Perplexity's price.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
PerplexityThe price Perplexity charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Same price as the maker
10 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
SAP AI CoreThe same price Perplexity charges.
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
OpperThe same price Perplexity charges.
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cheaper, and nobody says why
2 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
Perplexity Agent0.25× Perplexity's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.25 / $2.50in / out per M
0.81×of list price
TrustedRouter0.26× Perplexity's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.26 / $2.64in / out per M
0.86×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Sonar cheapest?
- No provider sells Sonar below Perplexity's price with a reason we can point at. 13 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
- Is Sonar open weights?
- No. Perplexity keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Perplexity's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
- How much context does Sonar hold?
- 128,000 tokens in one call, which is about 128k.
- How does Sonar compare with the rest of the market?
- At $4 per million tokens, Perplexity's price is 13% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.