perplexity/sonar vs perplexity/sonar-pro-search
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, perplexity/sonar is cheaper: $250.00 a month at OpenRouter, against $1,350.00 for perplexity/sonar-pro-search at OpenRouter — 5.4× the cost.
Cheapest on each
perplexity/sonar
$250.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $1 in, $1 out per million
perplexity/sonar-pro-search
$1,350.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $3 in, $15 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | perplexity/sonar | perplexity/sonar-pro-search |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 127K | 200K |
| Accepts | Aa · IMG | Aa · IMG |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $1 / M | $3 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | ○ no answer |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | perplexity/sonar /mo | perplexity/sonar-pro-search /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $250.002026-10-27 | $1,350.002026-10-27 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.