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Sonar Pro API Pricing

Sonar Pro costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens. Prices were last refreshed on from the AI Pricing Guru daily pricing pipeline.

Cost examples

These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.

1M input + 1M output

$18.00

A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.

100K input + 25K output

$0.675

A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.

10M input + 2M output

$60.00

A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.

75% cached input + 250K output

Not listed

Perplexity does not publish a cached-input rate for this model in our dataset.

Calculator for Sonar Pro

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Input cost

$3.00

Output cost

$15.00

Total

$18.00

Price history

No list-price movement across 73 daily snapshots from 2026-04-16 to 2026-06-29.

When to use Sonar Pro

Good fit

  • reasoning-heavy prompts, planning, analysis, and multi-step tool use

Be careful with

  • bulk summarization or simple classification where cheaper models can pass evaluation
  • decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first

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