Sonar Pro
About this model
Sonar Pro is an AI model from Perplexity, made available through the API on March 7, 2025. It can read up to 200,000 tokens in one request, roughly 375 pages of text, and write up to 8,000 tokens in a single answer. Besides text, it accepts images as input.
Through the API it costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. It is among the more expensive models we track, a price usually reserved for the most capable, flagship-class models.
Quality scores
Rankings →Not rated yet. Independent test results usually appear a few weeks after a model is released.
Where to use it
Companies that serve this model through an API: 1. Prices per million tokens, cheapest first.
Availability and prices come from OpenRouter’s public API and are refreshed daily. Uptime is the share of successful requests over the last 24 hours. Some providers run a compressed version of open models (fp8, int4), which is cheaper but can be slightly less accurate.
Use it in your code
Call Sonar Pro through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API: create a key on openrouter.ai, then run one of these examples.
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "perplexity/sonar-pro", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}]}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY });
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "perplexity/sonar-pro",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! What can you do?" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);The same code works with every model on this site: only the model ID changes. Many labs also offer their own API and SDK.
What it costs in practice
- 1,000 chat replies$6.00
- Summarise a 100-page document$0.165
- An app with 10,000 requests a day for a month$2,700
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See all →Frequently asked questions
- How much does Sonar Pro cost?
- Sonar Pro costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens through the API. For example, 1,000 chat replies of about 500 tokens in and 300 out cost around $6.00.
- What is the context window of Sonar Pro?
- Sonar Pro can read up to 200,000 tokens in one request, about 375 pages of text. It can write up to 8,000 tokens in a single answer.
- Is Sonar Pro open source?
- No. Sonar Pro is a closed model: its weights are not published, so you use it through Perplexity’s own apps and API, or through cloud providers.
- Who makes Sonar Pro?
- Sonar Pro is made by Perplexity. It became available through the API on March 7, 2025.
- Can Sonar Pro read images?
- Yes. Besides text, it accepts images as input.
- What are the alternatives to Sonar Pro?
- Models with a similar price from other companies include Ember-1, Aion 3.5 and Kimi K3. You can compare them side by side on this page.