Perplexity · model
Sonar
$1.00/1M in · $1.00/1M out · 127K context. That's cheaper than 57% of the 298 models we track, by output price. Here's what it costs, how its price has moved, and where it fits.
- Context
- 127K
- Input / 1M
- $1.00
- Output / 1M
- $1.00
- Modality
- text + image
- Provider
- Perplexity
- Tokenizer
- Other
Snapshot · source: OpenRouter ↗ · how we measure →
For 1,500 input + 500 output tokens across 200,000 requests/month. That's 67× the cheapest tracked option (Ling-2.6-flash, $6.00/mo).
Flat at $1.00 since tracking began 2026-06-14. Full history →
Where it fits
- Multimodal prompts — accepts image input alongside text.
Watch for
- Priced from OpenRouter's routed market, not a first-party list price — availability and rate can shift without notice.
These notes are derived from price, context and modality — structural facts, not measured quality. Measured cost-to-finish-a-task lives on the real-cost index.
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How to read Sonar's pricing
Two numbers decide most of the bill: $1.00/1M for input (everything you send — prompt, context, attachments) and $1.00/1M for output (everything it generates, including hidden reasoning tokens). Output is priced 1.0× the input rate here, so the shape of your workload — how much it reads versus writes — matters as much as the headline figure. This row is OpenRouter's routed market price; it can move as providers and routing change.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Sonar cost per million tokens?
Sonar is priced at $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens, from OpenRouter's routed market price as of the 2026-06-15 snapshot. Output is the figure that usually drives the bill. Enter your own token volumes in the cost calculator for a monthly estimate.
What is Sonar's context window?
Sonar has a 127K-token context window — roughly 191 pages of text. Prompt, attachments, conversation and the model's own output all share that budget, and every token you send is billed at the input rate.
Related
- API cost calculator — your monthly cost for Sonar and every other model.
- Model comparison — the full sortable table.
- Price history — how token prices move over time.
- LLM pricing explained — input, output, cached and reasoning tokens.