Perplexity Sonar API Pricing

Perplexity Sonar pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What Perplexity Sonar costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

Perplexity Sonar cost calculator

At EmpirioLabs AI's price ($2.40 input, $2.40 output per 1M tokens), 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each cost $36.00 a day, about $1,080 a month. Change the numbers for your workload, or compare it with other models.

Perplexity Sonar features

Input: text, image. Output: text.

• Image input
• Reasoning
• Web search

Use Perplexity Sonar with LiteLLM

Call Perplexity Sonar through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="empiriolabs/perplexity-sonar",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: perplexity-sonar
    litellm_params:
      model: empiriolabs/perplexity-sonar
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LITELLM_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "perplexity-sonar",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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Related models

• Perplexity Sonar Pro$7.20 / $36 per 1M tokens
• Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro$4.80 / $19 per 1M tokens