Sonar pricing
Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features... Live index: 3 priced offers. Best input $1.00 per million tokens from Openrouter. Best output $1.00 per million tokens from Openrouter.
Pricing across providers
Use this table to read Sonar list prices. We show 3 sources right now. Lowest input in the grid: Openrouter. The chart below the table helps when output prices are much higher than input prices.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached input | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
O Openrouter | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — |
VA Vercel Ai Gateway | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — |
P Perplexity | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | — |
Input vs output · per provider
Cost calculator
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Model specifications
Quick spec sheet for Sonar before you dive back into pricing. Reported under Perplexity.
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- N/A
- Vision (images)
- Yes
- Tool / function calling
- No
- Streaming
- No
- Released
- Jan 2025
- Primary provider
- Perplexity
- Model family
- N/A
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