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title: "Perplexity: Sonar — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "Perplexity: Sonar: $1.00/M in, $1.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# Perplexity: Sonar — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Perplexity: Sonar: $1.00/M in, $1.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Sonar

Perplexity · released 2025-01-27

 $1.00 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 | $1.00 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.00 /M |
| Web search | $0.005 /call |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 127K |
| --- | --- |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |

### Provenance

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

Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features...