Sonar Pro Search pricing.

prices as of · 3 providers · 3 prices

Perplexity's Sonar Pro Search holds 200k tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Whether its weights are open is not stated by our sources.

Sonar Pro Search costs $3 in and $15 out per million tokens from Perplexity, and no provider goes below it with a reason we can point at.

reads imagesreasoningstructured output200k contextreleased 30 Oct 2025

Perplexity list price

$24/M tokens

$3 in · $15 out

read · 576% above the market median

Cheapest price we can explain

$24

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

pages a month

Perplexity list price

$2.70a 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 Pro Search

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 price

What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.

  • Perplexity

    The price Perplexity charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.

    $3 / $15in / out per M

    1.00×of list price

Same price as the maker

2 prices

The same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.

Frequently asked

Who sells Sonar Pro Search cheapest?
No provider sells Sonar Pro Search below Perplexity's price with a reason we can point at. 3 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
Is Sonar Pro Search 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 Pro Search hold?
200,000 tokens in one call, which is about 200k.
How does Sonar Pro Search compare with the rest of the market?
At $24 per million tokens, Perplexity's price is 576% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.
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