Perplexity model pricing.
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Perplexity sells 7 prices on 9 models, from $0.20 per million tokens, checked .
Every model Perplexity sells
- 1Costs more
$0.20 in · $0.20 out
$0.20/M tokens - 2Costs more
$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens - 3Maker's price
$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens - 4
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research
Maker's price$2 in · $8 out
$3.50/M tokens - 5Maker's price
$2 in · $8 out
$3.50/M tokens - 6Maker's price
$3 in · $15 out
$6/M tokens - 7Maker's price
$3 in · $15 out
$6/M tokens
Where to start
Kind
Maker
based in US
Free tier
No
every price is paid
What Perplexity charges per million tokens embedded
Priced on input alone, since an embedding model writes no output, so never held beside a chat model's blended price. Every embedding model
Embedding models, per 1M input tokens
- 1Maker's price
Perplexity
0.4¢/M tokens - 2Maker's price
Perplexity
$0.03/M tokens
Frequently asked
- What is Perplexity?
- Sells its Sonar search models on its own API; request fees for search are separate from tokens. It sells 9 of the models we track, and trades as Perplexity AI, Inc., based in US.
- Is Perplexity cheaper than buying from the maker?
- 0 of its 7 prices are below the maker's own price. None of them comes with a published reason, so none of them leads a ranking.
- Does Perplexity train on what you send it?
- Perplexity does not say whether it trains on what you send it. It does not say how long it keeps requests.
- How current are these Perplexity prices?
- They come from the public catalogs we read, read every 3 days; the reading on this page is from 31 Oct 2026. Prices exclude tax.
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