Vendor comparison
Alibaba vs Perplexity
Every Alibaba and Perplexity LLM model side by side: pricing per million tokens, context windows, and capabilities. Refreshed nightly from upstream.
Alibaba
1 model| Model | Context | In $/1M | Out $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3B
tools, json_mode
|
131k | 0.0900 | 0.4500 |
Perplexity
5 models| Model | Context | In $/1M | Out $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Sonar
vision
|
127k | 1.0000 | 1.0000 |
| Sonar Deep Research | 128k | 2.0000 | 8.0000 |
|
Sonar Pro
vision
|
200k | 3.0000 | 15.0000 |
|
Sonar Pro Search
vision
|
200k | 3.0000 | 15.0000 |
|
Sonar Reasoning Pro
vision
|
128k | 2.0000 | 8.0000 |