Perplexity: Sonar Pro

Deprecatedperplexity/sonar-pro

Perplexity Sonar Pro API pricing

Sonar Pro costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens on Oxyy. These are the pay-as-you-go prices after the current 60% discount (Launch Promo; standard price $3.00 input and $15.00 output). Web search is billed on top, at $7.20 per 1K searches. It accepts text, images and files and returns text.

Advanced search-grounded model with deeper citation metadata and better multi-hop query handling.

ModalitiesTextImageFileText
Price$1.20 / $6.00 per 1M tokens in / out
Web search$7.20 per 1K searches

Providers

Where this model runs, and what each route costs. Requests are sent to a healthy provider automatically; if one errors, the gateway retries against another serving the same model.

ProviderInput /MOutput /MCache read /M
Perplexity$1.20$6.00—

Capabilities (9)

StreamingStructured outputSystem promptWeb searchCitationsVisionFile InputLanguage PreferencePro Search

Supported parameters (19)

modelmessagesstreammax_tokenstemperaturetop_ptop_kpresence_penaltyfrequency_penaltyresponse_formatsearch_modesearch_domainsearch_domain_filtersearch_recency_filtersearch_after_date_filtersearch_before_date_filterreturn_related_questionsreturn_imagesweb_search_options

Any other parameter you send is ignored rather than rejected.

Pricing

What this model costs on Oxyy, pay as you go. "Charged" is the rate a request is billed at; the standard price is shown beside it for reference.

Input price
$1.20
per 1M input tokens · standard price $3.00
Output price
$6.00
per 1M output tokens · standard price $15.00
RateStandard priceChargedUnit
Input$3.00$1.20per 1M input tokens
Output$15.00$6.00per 1M output tokens
Web search$18.00$7.20per 1K searches

Discount. Charged rates include the current "Launch Promo" discount of 60% on every rate.

UTC

Specifications

Model ID
sonar-pro
Developer
Perplexity
Type
Text
Input
Text, images and files
Output
Text
Series
Sonar
Image input
Up to 20 MB each
File input
Up to 100 MB each
Endpoint
/v1/chat/completions
Status
Deprecated (Sep 27, 2026)

Best for

Search groundedCitationsWeb searchRealtime

Quickstart

Call sonar-pro with a POST to /v1/chat/completions on https://api.oxyy.ai, using your Oxyy API key from the OXYY_API_KEY environment variable. The same key works for every model in the catalog.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.oxyy.ai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["OXYY_API_KEY"],
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="sonar-pro",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Explain unified AI APIs in one sentence."},
    ],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Availability

The share of requests to this model that completed successfully over the last 30 days. When an upstream provider errors, the gateway retries against another provider serving the same model, so a single provider incident does not necessarily show up here.

Requests (30 days)
5
A success rate is shown from 100 completed requests
Days with traffic
4
of the last 30 days

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time. Daily totals, UTC.

Prompt29
Completion44

Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length. Reasoning is not priced separately for this model, so it is not itemised here.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sonar Pro?
Advanced search-grounded model with deeper citation metadata and better multi-hop query handling.
How much does Sonar Pro cost?
Sonar Pro costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens on Oxyy. These are the pay-as-you-go prices after the current 60% discount (Launch Promo; standard price $3.00 input and $15.00 output). Web search is billed on top, at $7.20 per 1K searches. You pay per request, with no subscription.
Does Sonar Pro support tool calling and structured outputs?
Sonar Pro supports structured outputs. Tool calling is not listed among its capabilities.
What inputs and outputs does Sonar Pro support?
Sonar Pro accepts text, images and files as input and returns text.
Which API endpoint does Sonar Pro use?
Send a POST request to https://api.oxyy.ai/v1/chat/completions with "model": "sonar-pro", authenticated with your Oxyy API key.

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