Sonar Pro Search
Perplexity Sonar Pro Search — pricing, 200k context window, API cost calculator and alternatives.
By Perplexity
Specs
- Provider
- Perplexity
- Slug
- perplexity/sonar-pro-search
- Capabilities
- vision
Pricing freshness
- Tier
- standard
- Currency
- USD
- As of
- 2026-05-08 17:08 UTC
Pricing history
Tracking Sonar Pro Search pricing since 2026-05-08. We'll plot the chart here once it changes.
Quickstart — call Sonar Pro Search 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-search",
"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-search",
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-search",
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 Search?
Sonar Pro Search 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 Search cost?
Sonar Pro Search 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 Search?
Sonar Pro Search 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 Search support vision, tool use, or JSON mode?
Sonar Pro Search supports image input (vision). It does not support tool/function calling and structured JSON mode.
Who makes Sonar Pro Search?
Sonar Pro Search 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 Search?
Sonar Pro Search is API-only — its weights are not publicly distributed by Perplexity, so it cannot be self-hosted today.