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Sonar Pro Search

Perplexity · perplexity/sonar-pro-search

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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...

Sonar Pro Search ranks #319 of 348 models in the default AI Benchmark Hub order (quality first, then cost). At $9.00 blended per million tokens, it is cheaper than 8% of models with published API pricing. Its 200,000-token context window is 1.3× smaller than the catalog median (262,144 tokens).

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Context

Max context: 200000
Max output: 8000

Pricing

Input / 1M: 3.00
Output / 1M: 15.00
Blend / 1M: 9.00

Quality

Quality index: —

Provider

Provider: Perplexity
Moderated: no

Monthly cost at this blended rate

Estimated API spend if every token is billed at $9.00per million (the blend of this model's input and output prices). Real bills depend on the input/output mix.

Tokens / monthEst. cost (USD)
1,000,000$9.00
10,000,000$90.00
100,000,000$900.00

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