Sonar Small Chat API Pricing

Sonar Small Chat 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 Sonar Small Chat costs in practice

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

Use Sonar Small Chat with LiteLLM

Call Sonar Small Chat 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="perplexity/sonar-small-chat",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: sonar-small-chat
    litellm_params:
      model: perplexity/sonar-small-chat
      api_key: os.environ/PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sonar-small-chat",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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More Perplexity models

• Sonar Small Online$0 / $0.28 per 1M tokens
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• Sonar Reasoning Pro$2 / $8 per 1M tokens
• Sonar$1 / $1 per 1M tokens
• Sonar Pro$3 / $15 per 1M tokens
• Sonar Medium Chat$0.60 / $1.80 per 1M tokens
• Sonar Medium Online$0 / $1.80 per 1M tokens