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title: "Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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# Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search: $3.00/M in, $15.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Sonar Pro Search

Perplexity · released 2025-10-30

 $6.00 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $3.00 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $15.00 /M |
| Web search | $0.018 /call |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 200K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 8K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | always on |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based...