- Sonar — $1.5 sample workload
- Sonar Deep Research — $6 sample workload
- Sonar Reasoning Pro — $6 sample workload
- Sonar Pro — $10.5 sample workload
- Sonar Pro Search — $10.5 sample workload
Perplexity LLM API Models & Pricing
Browse Perplexity LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.
5Models tracked
5Priced models
5Popular models
0Latest releases
Provider shortlist
Use Perplexity as a model-level shortlist, not a single default choice.
Start from the cost, context, and popularity picks below, then open the model pages or head-to-head comparisons before choosing an API.
Cost pick
Sonar
$1.5 sample workload
Context pick
Sonar Pro
200K context window
Popular pick
Sonar
#157 popularity signal
When to avoid
Verify model fit
Do not choose by provider name alone. Compare model-level input price, output price, context window, release timing, and current availability before production use.
- Sonar Pro — 200K
- Sonar Pro Search — 200K
- Sonar Deep Research — 128K
- Sonar Reasoning Pro — 128K
- Sonar — 127.07K
Perplexity comparisons
Search Perplexity comparisons| Comparison | Sample Cost Winner | Larger Context | Newest Release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) vs Sonar Pro Search | Nemotron 3 Super (free) | Nemotron 3 Super (free) |
Cross-Provider Alternatives
Open alternatives hubUse this shortlist when Perplexity is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.
| Alternative | Provider | Sample Cost | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥Owl Alpha | OpenRouter | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1.05M |
| New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1M |
| 🔥Laguna M.1 (free) | Poolside | $0 | $0 | $0 | 262.14K |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1M |
| gpt-oss-120b (free) | OpenAI | $0 | $0 | $0 | 131.07K |
| Laguna XS.2 (free) | Poolside | $0 | $0 | $0 | 262.14K |
Perplexity model catalog
Browse all models| Model | Prompt | Output | Context | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar | $1 | $1 | 127.07K | #157 |
| Sonar Pro | $3 | $15 | 200K | #178 |
| Sonar Pro Search | $3 | $15 | 200K | #205 |
| Sonar Deep Research | $2 | $8 | 128K | #246 |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | $2 | $8 | 128K | #249 |