Sonar Pro Search: API pricing, providers and specs
Sonar Pro Search is a text model by Perplexity. One provider serves it: OpenRouter, at $15 /1M.
Lowest price$15/1Mat OpenRouter
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers1
Context200KMax output 8K
How Sonar Pro Search compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Pricey for its class: at $15 /1M, its lowest price is above 91% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 200K-token context window is larger than 32% of them (median 262K), about 300 pages of text.
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
Sonar Pro Search prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $3/1M | From$15/1M | — | 200K |
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Perplexity
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 200K≈ 300 pages of text
- Max output
- 8K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Reasoning, Vision
- Released
- Oct 30, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
Alternatives to Sonar Pro Search
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Pro Searchthis model | $15/1M | 200K | — | 1 |
 Gemini 4 Argon | $8/1M | 1.05M | 1673 | 26 |
| Kimi K3 | $8.28/1M | 1.05M | 1655 | 47 |
| GPT-6 Astra | $25/1M | 1.05M | 1775 | 31 |
 Muse Wonder | $16/1M | 1.05M | — | 14 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $16/1M | 1M | 1807 | 33 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | $8/1M | 1.05M | 1749 | 27 |
| GPT-6 Sol | $8/1M | 1.05M | 1682 | 28 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $8/1M | 1M | 1767 | 32 |
More from Perplexity
Sonar Pro Search FAQ
The lowest price for Sonar Pro Search is $15 /1M, at OpenRouter.
Sonar Pro Search reads up to 200K tokens per request and writes up to 8K.
We have not found Sonar Pro Search's weights published by its maker.
1 API providers serve Sonar Pro Search. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us