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Sonar: price, performance and context
Proprietary Sonar by Perplexity costs $1.00 per 1M input and $1.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 127.1K tokens in one request (≈ 380 pages of text) and scores 7.7 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 174 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
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Key facts
- Licence
- Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
- Input / 1M tokens
- $1.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $1.00
- Context window
- 127.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 114.4K tokens
- Performance index
- 7.7 points · rank 174 of 212
- Coding index
- n/a
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $1.25 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Jan 27, 2025
- Capabilities
- Vision
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 13,000 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 15,000 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.004 | 2,600 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.007 | 1,500 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.102 | 98 |
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