Perplexity / product line
Perplexity Sonar family
Sonar search-grounded answers, reasoning products and Deep Research have distinct request behaviour. Raw search and third-party Agent API offerings are separate services.
Family research reviewed · Official source notes below
- Standard models
- 5
- Independently rated
- 0 / 5
- Known token rates
- 5 / 5
- Global balanced frontier
- 0
This collection organises accepted catalogue identities. It does not certify equal weights, a shared licence, benchmark equivalence or current availability on every serving platform.
Compare exact catalogue rows
USD per 1M tokens. In / out are listed base rates; expand billing conditions before planning a request. LMArena scores measure the general preference board, not success on your engineering task. Unknown stays unknown.
Catalogue members
| Model | LMArena | Input / output $/M | Context / max output | Capabilities & conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sonar Pro Searchperplexity/sonar-pro-search | Unrated | $3.00 / $15.00Listed base ratesBilling details
Tool, media, cache-write and service-tier charges may add dimensions. Read the full model evidence. | 200,000Output 8,000 | text · imageTools no · reasoning yesWeights unknownReleased 2025-10-30 |
Sonar Reasoning Properplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro | Unrated | $2.00 / $8.00Listed base ratesBilling details
Tool, media, cache-write and service-tier charges may add dimensions. Read the full model evidence. | 128,000Output 115,200 | text · imageTools no · reasoning yesWeights unknownReleased 2025-03-07 |
Sonar Properplexity/sonar-pro | Unrated | $3.00 / $15.00Listed base ratesBilling details
Tool, media, cache-write and service-tier charges may add dimensions. Read the full model evidence. | 200,000Output 8,000 | text · imageTools no · reasoning noWeights unknownReleased 2025-03-07 |
Sonar Deep Researchperplexity/sonar-deep-research | Unrated | $2.00 / $8.00Listed base ratesBilling details
Tool, media, cache-write and service-tier charges may add dimensions. Read the full model evidence. | 128,000Output 115,200 | textTools no · reasoning yesWeights unknownReleased 2025-03-07 |
Sonarperplexity/sonar | Unrated | $1.00 / $1.00Listed base ratesBilling details
Tool, media, cache-write and service-tier charges may add dimensions. Read the full model evidence. | 127,072Output 114,364 | text · imageTools no · reasoning noWeights unknownReleased 2025-01-27 |
Sources and scope
- Perplexity official documentation index ↗
Index-level product identity evidence; no API retirement inferred from navigation
Checked 2026-09-22 · official document opened and inspected
Source review does not refresh a price or transplant a benchmark score. Read the method and correction policy.
Questions this page answers
Are the Perplexity Sonar family models interchangeable?
No. These are exact catalogue rows with separate capability, pricing and rating evidence. Compare the checkpoint, serving endpoint, reasoning settings and required input types. A family name does not establish equivalent behaviour.
How many Perplexity rows are compared here?
5 standard rows, of which 0 have an accepted LMArena general score and 5 have known input and output token rates. 0 related free or batch variants are listed separately.
What do the prices and frontier counts mean?
Prices below are listed US dollars per million input or output tokens, before request-specific context tiers and other billing dimensions. The frontier count comes from the global balanced view. Neither a family price range nor a benchmark difference proves your task will be cheaper or more successful.
How current are the official notes?
The linked family research was reviewed 2026-09-22. That date is separate from each accepted catalogue observation and each vendor’s effective date. An official note applies to its named platform, not automatically to every reseller.