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Sonar Pro

perplexity·perplexity/sonar-pro·GA·Closed·sonar-pro series
Deeper Sonar search model with broader retrieval and stronger synthesis

Sonar Pro by perplexity is offered by 12 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 10 of them. Its official list price is $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens.

The context window is 200,000 tokens, with an output limit of 8,192 tokens. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-09-01.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·Perplexity
$3.00 / $15.00
Blended $6.00 · Cache read —
Lowest paid·SAP AI CoreCloud
$3.00 / $15.00
Blended $6.00 · 1× spread
Context
200,000
Output limit
8,192
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09-01
Released / updated
2024-01-01 / 2025-09-01
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImage

Available at 12 providers10 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
SAP AI CoreCloud$3.00$15.00——200,0008,192
DevPass (LLM Gateway)Gateway$3.00$15.00——200,0008,192
OpperGateway$3.00$15.00——200,0008,192
OpenRouterGateway$3.00$15.00——200,0008,000
PerplexityOfficialFirst-party$3.00$15.00——200,0008,192
Eden AIGateway$3.00$15.00——200,0008,192
HeliconeGateway$3.00$15.00——200,0004,096
Kilo GatewayGateway$3.00$15.00——200,0008,000
NanoGPTGateway$3.00$15.00$1.50—200,000128,000
LLM GatewayGateway$3.00$15.00——200,0008,192
Vercel AI GatewayCloud————200,0008,000hostTable.undisclosed
AnyAPIGateway————200,0008,192hostTable.undisclosed

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Your usage cost

1NanoGPT$1,170.00
2SAP AI Core$1,350.00
3DevPass (LLM Gateway)$1,350.00
4Opper$1,350.00
5OpenRouter$1,350.00
6Perplexity · Official$1,350.00
Switch to NanoGPT to save $180.00/mo (13%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Benchmark1 items

NameConditionsScoreMetricSource
SciCode—22.6percent correctSource ↗

The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.

Related models

Perplexity: Sonar Pro Searchsame series$3.00 / $15.00Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507cheaper alternative$1.03 / $3.08Qwen3 Maxcheaper alternative$0.861 / $3.44Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.216 / $0.861Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$15.00$02026-08-052026-08-132026-08-05 · Input list $3.002026-08-06 · Input list $3.002026-08-07 · Input list $3.002026-08-08 · Input list $3.002026-08-09 · Input list $3.002026-08-10 · Input list $3.002026-08-11 · Input list $3.002026-08-12 · Input list $3.002026-08-13 · Input list $3.002026-08-05 · Output list $15.002026-08-06 · Output list $15.002026-08-07 · Output list $15.002026-08-08 · Output list $15.002026-08-09 · Output list $15.002026-08-10 · Output list $15.002026-08-11 · Output list $15.002026-08-12 · Output list $15.002026-08-13 · Output list $15.002026-08-05 · Min blended $6.002026-08-06 · Min blended $6.002026-08-07 · Min blended $6.002026-08-08 · Min blended $6.002026-08-09 · Min blended $6.002026-08-10 · Min blended $6.002026-08-11 · Min blended $6.002026-08-12 · Min blended $6.002026-08-13 · Min blended $6.00
Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · Perplexity official docs ↗