Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Perplexity Sonar Pro: API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Claude 3.5 Haiku is 80.0% cheaper ($405.00/mo vs $2025.00/mo), while Claude 3.5 Haiku leads in token generation speed (130 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic) Perplexity Sonar Pro (Perplexity Sonar API) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.800 $3.000 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.080 $3.000 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $4.00 $15.00 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1238 LMSYS Elo 1260 LMSYS Elo Perplexity Sonar Pro
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $405.00 / mo $2025.00 / mo Claude 3.5 Haiku (-80.0%)
Context Window 200,000 tokens 200,000 tokens Claude 3.5 Haiku
Output Speed (Throughput) 130 tokens/sec 75 tokens/sec Claude 3.5 Haiku
Batch API Discount -50% (Anthropic) -0% (Perplexity Sonar API) Anthropic
Primary Workload Fit Fast code sub-tasks, real-time moderation, heavy prompt-cached pipelines Market research agents, citation-backed fact checking, B2B company enrichment Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try Claude 3.5 Haiku → Try Perplexity Sonar Pro → Open Full Simulator