Perplexity Sonar API • Live Web Search Grounded API

Perplexity Sonar Pro API Pricing & Cost Calculator

Best suited for: Market research agents, citation-backed fact checking, B2B company enrichment. Standard input costs $3.000 per 1M tokens ($3.000 with prompt caching) and output costs $15.00 per 1M tokens.

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Standard Input / 1M
$3.000
Cached Input / 1M
$3.000
Output Tokens / 1M
$15.00
Context Window
200,000 tok
Throughput Speed
75 tok/s
Est. 5k Req/Day Spend
$2025.00/mo

Token Volume Cost Conversion Table (Perplexity Sonar Pro)

Token Volume Approx. English Words Un-cached Input Cost Cached Input Cost Output Generation Cost
10,000 tokens~7,500 words$0.0300$0.0300$0.1500
100,000 tokens~75,000 words$0.3000$0.3000$1.5000
1,000,000 tokens~750,000 words$3.0000$3.0000$15.0000
10,000,000 tokens~7,500,000 words$30.0000$30.0000$150.0000
100,000,000 tokens~75,000,000 words$300.0000$300.0000$1500.0000

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