Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search pricing
Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search from OpenRouter costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens. Context window 200,000 tokens.
API id perplexity/sonar-pro-search · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose
$3.00
Input / 1M tokens
$15.00
Output / 1M tokens
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Cached input / 1M
200K
Context window
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search specifications
- Provider
- OpenRouter
- API id
perplexity/sonar-pro-search- Model type
- general-purpose
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Max output
- 8K tokens
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- Provider API
- Last checked
- 2026-09-25
Tags
- flagship
- vision
What Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.01 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.18 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $6.00 |
Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.
Common questions
- How much does Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search cost per 1M tokens?
- Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
- What is Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search's context window?
- Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search accepts up to 200,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 8,000 output tokens.
- Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search?
- Yes. OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo is $0.500 per 1M input tokens versus $3.00 for Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search, with a 16,385 token context window.
- Where does this Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search price come from?
- From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.
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