Sonar

Name: Sonar
Brand: Perplexity · Sonar
Price: 2.5 USD

latest Perplexity · Sonar

Verified 2026-10-15 against the pages listed below. Prices are USD per 1M tokens, list rate — no committed-use, enterprise or volume discount.

Input

$0.25

Cached input

$0.062

Cache write

—

Output

$2.50

Context window

128,000

Max output

—

Weights

closed

Caching

unverified

Agent API rate for perplexity/sonar, the endpoint Perplexity supports since Sonar Chat Completions support ended on 2026-09-27; plus $0.0025 per web-search call and $0.0005 per URL fetch. Flex bills 0.5x and priority 2x. The pricing page still lists Chat Completions Sonar at $1/$1 plus $5–$12 per 1,000 requests, and Chat Completions requests are being reformulated as Agent API requests — Perplexity does not say which rate those bill at

128K was stated on the Sonar model page, which became the Agent API migration guide on 2026-09-27; no page restates it

the Agent API table prices a cache read at $0.0625, a quarter of input, but no page says when a prefix caches or for how long

Watch out

Search is now billed per tool call, not per request: $0.0025 per web search is $2.50 per 1,000, below Chat Completions' $5–$12 request fee — but an agent that searches three times pays three. Output rose from $1.00 to $2.50, so long answers cost more than they did

What we would use it for

Search-grounded answers with citations, no retrieval stack to build

What this has cost, week by week

Output price at each refresh since 2026-07-30. A vendor change is the provider changing its price. Our correction means this board changed what it prints and the provider's charge did not move — the two are never merged, because publishing the second as the first would be a price rise that never happened.

07-30 $1.00→08-06 $1.00→08-14 $1.00→08-20 $1.00→08-27 $1.00→09-03 $1.00→09-10 $1.00→09-17 $1.00→09-24 $1.00→10-01 $2.50→10-08 $2.50→10-15 $2.50

newly stated2026-09-24 · window — 128K from Perplexity's per-model page, newly cited.

vendor change2026-10-01 · in, cached_in, out — $1.00 / — / $1.00 → $0.25 / $0.0625 / $2.50: Perplexity ended Sonar Chat Completions support on 2026-09-27 and moved Sonar to the Agent API, which prices perplexity/sonar at its own rate and bills search per tool call. The Chat Completions rate is still printed on the pricing page for requests being reformulated.

Where these numbers came from

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-10-15. If one is wrong, send us the source URL and it is corrected in the next weekly refresh, with a changelog line saying what was wrong — contact@naderu.com.

Jobs this is one of our picks for

Web search — Live internet retrieval, fresh facts and search grounding (web-search)

Discussed in Naderu Weekly

Why web search busts your prompt cache — 2026-10-15
Same price, new rules — 2026-10-01
Three launches, no price rises — 2026-09-24
The retirement that didn't happen — 2026-09-17
The name stayed. The model didn't. — 2026-09-10
Nobody changed a price this week — 2026-09-03
The weights aren't the whole model — 2026-08-20

The rest of the board

This row sits alongside 69 others on the model board, refreshed every week. The same data as JSON, and the terms for using it, are at /board-data.