Sonar pricing.
Prices checked
Sonar costs $1 in and $1 out per million tokens from Perplexity; the cheapest price is $1 at OpenRouter, checked .
Perplexity's own price
Perplexity
$1 in · $1 out
13% above the typical price of the 392 text models we track.
Cheapest price
OpenRouter
$1 in · $1 out
Nobody sells it for less than Perplexity with a reason we can point at.
Every provider selling Sonar
- 1
$1 in · $1 out · 127k context here
$1/M tokens - 2Same as maker
$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens - 3
$1 in · $1 out · 127k context here
$1/M tokens - 4
SAP AI Core
Same as maker$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens - 5
$1 in · $1 out · 127k context here
$1/M tokens - 6
$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens - 7
$1 in · $1 out · 127k context here
$1/M tokens - 8
$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens - 9
$1 in · $1 out · 131k context here
$1/M tokens - 10
$1 in · $1 out · 127k context here
$1/M tokens - 11
$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens
Not ranked
Below the maker's own price with nothing published to account for it, from a catalog we could not read reliably, or a free tier, which is a limit rather than a price. Why
$0.25 in · $2.50 out · 130k context here
$0.81/M tokens$0.25 in · $2.50 out · 127k context here
$0.81/M tokens$0.25 in · $2.50 out
$0.81/M tokens$0.26 in · $2.64 out
$0.86/M tokens
What it costs for your work
A month at Perplexity's own price
A month at OpenRouter, the cheapest
What you save
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.
How we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below Perplexity's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Not ranked
- Below the maker's price on a closed model with nothing to account for it, or from a catalog we could not read reliably. Listed, and never a pick.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what Sonar does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Sonar's cheapest price, $1 per M tokens.
Frequently asked
- Who sells Sonar cheapest?
- No provider sells Sonar below Perplexity's own price for a reason it publishes. 15 providers sell it at that price or above, and every one of them is 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 Perplexity's here needs a published reason, or it is listed and not 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 $1 per million tokens, Perplexity's own price is 13% above the typical $0.88 across the 392 text models we track.
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