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Sonar Pro: price, performance and context

Proprietary Sonar Pro by Perplexity costs $3.00 per 1M input and $15.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 200K tokens in one request (≈ 600 pages of text) and scores 7.6 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 180 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · perplexity/sonar-pro

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$3.00
Output / 1M tokens
$15.00
Context window
200K tokens
Max. output
8K tokens
Performance index
7.6 points · rank 180 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$6.75 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Mar 07, 2025
Capabilities
Vision

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0081,200
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0071,500
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.017570
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.032320
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.3330

Cheaper with similar performance

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionAIProprietary41.1$0.00
Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAIOpen24.6$0.036
Ling 3.0 FlashinclusionAIOpen20.1$0.037

Stronger models

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
SonarPerplexityProprietary7.7$1.25
Llama 3.3 70B InstructMetaOpen7.7$0.345
Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwenOpen7.7$0.46

Open alternatives

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiOpen46.3$0.653
GLM 5.3Z.aiOpen44.8$1.79
Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen43.6$4.195