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Sonar (Perplexity)

by LLM Gateway · family sonar · listed Jan 2024

Fast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval

Current rates USD per 1M tokens

Input$0.25
Output$2.50
Cache read—
Cache write$0.25

Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.15 per 1M tokens$0.15Qwen3.8 Omni FlashQwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.15 per 1M tokens$0.15Sonar (Perplexity)Sonar (Perplexity): $0.25 per 1M tokens$0.25Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash: $0.75 per 1M tokens$0.75GLM-5.3GLM-5.3: $1.40 per 1M tokens$1.40Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00GPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 Sol: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Grok 4.7Grok 4.7: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Qwen3.8 Omni FlashQwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.47 per 1M tokens$0.47DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.60 per 1M tokens$0.60Sonar (Perplexity)Sonar (Perplexity): $2.50 per 1M tokens$2.50Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash: $3.75 per 1M tokens$3.75GLM-5.3GLM-5.3: $4.40 per 1M tokens$4.40Grok 4.7Grok 4.7: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00GPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 Sol: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00

On the record

Model id
perplexity/sonar
Context window
130K tokens
Max output
4K tokens
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Reasoning
no
Tool calls
no
Open weights
no
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 2025
Released
2024-01-01
Last updated
2025-09-01
Provider docs
llmgateway.io/docs

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