Perplexity Agent is a third-party gateway that routes to many upstream models through one API. Gateway quotes are often among the lowest on the site, but availability, rate limits and routing can vary between models, so a low headline price is worth verifying against your own workload.
It lists 22 models on this page. Coverage spans text and chat (22). The lowest-priced model hosted here is DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731.
Perplexity Agent is the lowest paid channel for 2 models that have at least two competing paid hosts, which is where its pricing genuinely leads rather than being the only option.
| Cheapest here? | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | $0.13 | $0.26 | $0.028 | 1,000,000 | 3.7× pricier |
| Grok 4.1 Fast (Non-Reasoning)xai/grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning | $0.20 | $0.50 | $0.05 | 2,000,000 | 1.1× pricier |
| GPT-5 Miniopenai/gpt-5-mini | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.025 | 400,000 | 6.7× pricier |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bnvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b | $0.25 | $2.50 | — | 1,000,000 | 8.1× pricier |
| Sonarperplexity/sonar | $0.25 | $2.50 | $0.063 | 128,000 | Lowest anywhere |
| Gemini 2.5 Flashgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 1,048,576 | 3.5× pricier |
| Gemini 3 Flash Previewgoogle/gemini-3-flash-preview | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.05 | 1,048,576 | 7.0× pricier |
| Kimi K2.7 Codemoonshot-ai/kimi-k2.7-code | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.19 | 262,144 | 3.6× pricier |
| Claude Haiku 4.5anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.10 | 200,000 | 7.1× pricier |
| Grok 4.6xai/grok-4.6 | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.50 | 500,000 | Lowest anywhere |
| Gemini 2.5 Progoogle/gemini-2.5-pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | $0.13 | 1,048,576 | 1.4× pricier |
| GPT-5.1openai/gpt-5.1 | $1.25 | $10.00 | $0.13 | 400,000 | 1.3× pricier |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgoogle/gemini-3.1-pro-preview | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.20 | 1,048,576 | 2.0× pricier |
| GPT-5.2openai/gpt-5.2 | $1.75 | $14.00 | $0.18 | 400,000 | 7.0× pricier |
| GPT-5.4openai/gpt-5.4 | $2.50 | $15.00 | $0.25 | 1,050,000 | 2.7× pricier |
| Kimi K3moonshot-ai/kimi-k3 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | 1,048,576 | 1.7× pricier |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | 200,000 | 2.9× pricier |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | 200,000 | 7.0× pricier |
| Claude Opus 4.7anthropic/claude-opus-4-7 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1,000,000 | 1.2× pricier |
| Claude Opus 4.6anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 200,000 | 1.2× pricier |
| Claude Opus 4.5anthropic/claude-opus-4-5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 200,000 | 7.0× pricier |
| GPT-5.5openai/gpt-5.5 | $5.00 | $30.00 | $0.50 | 1,050,000 | 2.7× pricier |