SonarDeprecated
Perplexity · released 2024-01-01
The official API price of Sonar is $1 per 1M input tokens and $1 per 1M output tokens (as of 2026-11-12). Context window: 128K tokens, up to 4.1K output tokens per request. 9 providers sell it, none below the official price. This model is marked as deprecated.
Price by providerUSD per 1M tokens
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PerplexityOfficialDeprecatedsonar | $1 | $1 | — | OfficialDeprecated | Official docs |
 AI/ML APIperplexity/ | $1 | $1 | — | Official docs | |
EEden AIperplexityai/ | $1 | $1 | — | Official docs | |
HHeliconesonar | $1 | $1 | — | Official docs | |
OOppersonar | $1 | $1 | — | Official docs | |
SSAP AI Coresonar | $1 | $1 | — | Official docs | |
| $0.25 | $2.5 | — | Official docs | ||
LLLM Gatewayperplexity/ | $0.25 | $2.5 | — | Official docs | |
PPerplexity Agentperplexity/ | $0.25 | $2.5 | $0.0625 | Official docs |
Providers are those listed by models.dev. This site has not vetted them one by one; each provider's own page has the binding price.
About
Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval
Description from models.dev.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Context
- 128K
- Max output
- 4.1K
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- Yes
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-09-01
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- 2024-01-01
Source
Prices and specs come from models.dev (MIT licence), updated 2026-11-12. Each provider's name links to its official docs. A provider priced at 0 usually includes the model in a subscription; it is not necessarily a free API.