Sonar Pro
Perplexity Sonar Pro — pricing, 200k context window, API cost calculator and alternatives.
By Perplexity
Specs
- Provider
- Perplexity
- Slug
- perplexity/sonar-pro
- Capabilities
- vision
Pricing freshness
- Tier
- standard
- Currency
- USD
- As of
- 2026-05-08 17:08 UTC
Pricing history
Tracking Sonar Pro pricing since 2026-05-08. We'll plot the chart here once it changes.
Quickstart — call Sonar Pro from your app
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "perplexity/sonar-pro",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
}'
Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"],
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
// npm install openai
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "perplexity/sonar-pro",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);
Official docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs
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Frequently asked questions
What is Sonar Pro?
Sonar Pro is a large language model API from Perplexity with a 200k-token context window. It costs $3 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens.
How much does Sonar Pro cost?
Sonar Pro is priced at $3 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens via the Perplexity API. A 50/50 input/output workload of 1M total tokens costs about $9.
What is the context window of Sonar Pro?
Sonar Pro supports up to 200k tokens of context per request — roughly 400 pages of English text or 25000 lines of code at a typical density.
Does Sonar Pro support vision, tool use, or JSON mode?
Sonar Pro supports image input (vision). It does not support tool/function calling and structured JSON mode.
Who makes Sonar Pro?
Sonar Pro is built and operated by Perplexity. Pricing, context window, and capabilities on this page are refreshed nightly from Perplexity's public catalog.
Can I self-host Sonar Pro?
Sonar Pro is API-only — its weights are not publicly distributed by Perplexity, so it cannot be self-hosted today.