Sonar
Perplexity · sonar
Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval
Specification
perplexity listing
Context
128K
Max output
4K
Released
2024-01-01
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09-01
Retires
—
Open weights
no
Input
text
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · perplexity list price
Input
$1.00
Output
$1.00
Cache read
$0.0625
Cache write
$0.25
Available from 14 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| perplexityvendor | $1.00 $0.25 | $1.00 $2.50 | $0.0625 | — | 128K | 4K 128K | — |
| llmgateway | $0.25 | $2.50 | — | $0.25 | 130K | 4K | — |
| llmgateway-providers | $0.25 | $2.50 | — | $0.25 | 130K | 4K | — |
| perplexity-agent | $0.25 | $2.50 | $0.0625 | — | 128K | 8K | — |
| vercel | $0.25 | $2.50 | — | $0.0625 | 127K | 8K | — |
| aimlapi | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 128K | 100K | — |
| edenai · perplexityai | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127K | 4K | — |
| helicone | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127K | 4K | — |
| kilo | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127K | 114K | — |
| openrouter | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127K | 114K | — |
| opper | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 128K | 4K | — |
| sap-ai-core | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 128K | 4K | — |
| vercel_ai_gateway · vercel-ai-gateway | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — | 127K | 8K | — |
| kyma · kyma | $1.35 | $1.35 | — | — | 127K | 4K | — |
Price history
append-only observations · a listing writes a row only when its price moves
| Date | Host | Field | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | llmgateway | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-28 | llmgateway | Input | $0.25 |
| 2026-09-02 | llmgateway-providers | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-28 | llmgateway-providers | Input | $0.25 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-19 | openrouter | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-02 | perplexity | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-06 | perplexity | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-02 | llmgateway | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-28 | llmgateway | Output | $2.50 |
| 2026-09-02 | llmgateway-providers | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-28 | llmgateway-providers | Output | $2.50 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-19 | openrouter | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-10-10 | openrouter | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-02 | perplexity | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-06 | perplexity | Output | $1.00 |
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi | Input | $1.30 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi | Input | $1.00 |
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi | Output | $1.30 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi | Output | $1.00 |
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