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.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAP AI Core | Cloud | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| Opper | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,000 | |
| PerplexityOfficial | First-party | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| Helicone | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 4,096 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $1.50 | — | 200,000 | 128,000 | |
| LLM Gateway | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | — | — | — | — | 200,000 | 8,000 | hostTable.undisclosed |
| AnyAPI | Gateway | — | — | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | hostTable.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.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.