Perplexity · Pricing Plans
Perplexity Plans Pricing
Perplexity Sonar API pricing combines per-token and per-search costs.
Perplexity Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Perplexity on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 4 plans, covering usage-based tiers, with named plans including Sonar, Sonar Pro, Sonar Reasoning Pro, Sonar Deep Research.
Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Search, and RAG.
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Plans
Sonar
usage-based
Per-token pricing for Sonar.
Input tokens (tokens · usage)
1.00 USD
Output tokens (tokens · usage)
1.00 USD
Search per 1K (low context) (search · usage)
5.00 USD
Search per 1K (high context) (search · usage)
12.00 USD
- Lightweight web-grounded answers
- Citation included
Sonar Pro
usage-based
Per-token pricing for Sonar Pro.
Input tokens (tokens · usage)
3.00 USD
Output tokens (tokens · usage)
15.00 USD
Search per 1K (low context) (search · usage)
6.00 USD
Search per 1K (high context) (search · usage)
14.00 USD
- Per-token billing
- Pay as you go
Sonar Reasoning Pro
usage-based
Per-token pricing for Sonar Reasoning Pro.
Input tokens (tokens · usage)
2.00 USD
Output tokens (tokens · usage)
8.00 USD
Search per 1K (search · usage)
6.00-14.00 USD
- Per-token billing
- Pay as you go
Sonar Deep Research
usage-based
Per-token pricing for Sonar Deep Research.
Input tokens (tokens · usage)
2.00 USD
Output tokens (tokens · usage)
8.00 USD
Search queries per 1K (query · usage)
5.00 USD
Citations per MTok (tokens · usage)
2.00 USD
Reasoning tokens per MTok (tokens · usage)
3.00 USD
- Long-form research synthesis
- Multi-step retrieval