Model

Sonar Pro

Name: Sonar Pro
Brand: perplexity

Deeper Sonar search model with broader retrieval and stronger synthesis

12 providers · 12 listingsreleased Jan 1, 2024knowledge cutoff 2025-09-01closed weights

lowest input /M · NanoGPT

$15

lowest output /M · NanoGPT

200K

context window

128K

max output

Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)

10 of 12 providers publish a price for Sonar Pro. The cheapest full-context option is NanoGPT at $3/$15 per M — 4% below Perplexity's own price.

			Cache read /M	Cache write /M		Capabilities
NanoGPT sonar-pro	$3	$15	$1.50	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
LLM Gateway perplexity/sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsstructuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
SAP AI Core sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Sep 1, 2025
Helicone sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Jan 27, 2025
DevPass (LLM Gateway) sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Sep 1, 2025
Opper perplexity/sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Sep 1, 2025
Kilo Gateway perplexity/sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Mar 7, 2025
OpenRouter perplexity/sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Mar 7, 2025
Perplexity sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Sep 1, 2025
Eden AI perplexityai/sonar-pro	$3	$15	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Sep 1, 2025
Vercel AI Gateway perplexity/sonar-pro	—	—	—	—	200K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Feb 19, 2025
AnyAPI perplexity/sonar-pro	—	—	—	—	200K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredvision	Sep 1, 2025

Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M: $3unchanged
Best output /M: $15unchanged
Provider coverage: 12; 11 at the start · 24 snapshots

Published best prices are unchanged.

24 daily snapshots collected from Aug 21, 2026 through Sep 14, 2026. A price chart will appear after the first real move.

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Recent changes

Changelog →

new providervia opper · Aug 23, 2026

Benchmarks

SciCode(percent correct)report ↗Marketplace22.6

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Prices are per million tokens (USD). “—” means the provider does not publicly list a price for this model. Data from models.dev; verify with the provider before purchasing.