Sonar Pro Search
by Perplexity · perplexity/sonar-pro-search · #294 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
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. Pricing is based...
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Pricing
Input
$3.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$15.00
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$6.00
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
—
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Sonar Pro Search (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $6.00 | $0.321 | — |
| 50% | $6.00 | $0.321 | −0% |
| 90% | $6.00 | $0.321 | −0% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.006 | $6.00 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.039 | $39.00 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.12 | $120.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.525 | $525.00 |
Specs
Context window
200K
tokens
Max output
8K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image
Tokenizer
Other