Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search

Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search is a large language model from Perplexity. It costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. Its context window is 200K tokens.

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Input / 1M tokens: $3.00
Output / 1M tokens: $15.00
Cached input / 1M: -
Context window: 200K

This model also charges $0.018 per search request

That is $18.00 per 1,000 requests, billed on top of the token prices above. On a typical 1,000-in / 500-out exchange the tokens cost $0.01, so the search fee is 1.7× the token cost. Per-token rankings elsewhere ignore this entirely.

Who serves it cheapest

1 hosts serve Sonar Pro Search. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.

Providers serving Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search, cheapest first
Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context	Throughput	Uptime 24h
PerplexityCheapest	$3.00	$15.00	200K	-	100.0%

About Sonar Pro Search

Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based...

Specifications

Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search specifications
Model ID	`perplexity/sonar-pro-search`
Provider	Perplexity
Context window	200K tokens
Max output	8K tokens
Input modalities	text, image
Output modalities	text
Knowledge cutoff	-
Open weights	No
Released	October 30, 2025

Cheaper alternatives

Models that cost less than Sonar Pro Search while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.

GPT-5.4

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Nova Premier 1.0

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GPT-5.3-Codex

$1.75 in · $14.00 out

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GPT-5.2-Codex

$1.75 in · $14.00 out

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Frequently asked

How much does Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search cost?

$3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search?

200K tokens, with up to 8K tokens of output per request.

Does Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search have extra fees beyond per-token pricing?

Yes. Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search charges $0.018 per search request - $18.00 per 1,000 requests - on top of $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. On a typical 1,000-input / 500-output exchange the search fee alone is 1.7× the token cost.

Confirm against the source: Perplexity official pricing.