Processing 10,000 lines of code (~112,000 tokens) with Perplexity Sonar Pro costs $0.336 for codebase ingestion and $0.672 for an AI-powered code review and refactoring pass.
Feed 10,000 lines of code into the prompt context for repository search, Q&A, or architecture planning.
Ingest 10,000 lines of code and generate audit findings, unit test recommendations, and refactor diffs.
Perplexity Sonar Pro writes 10,000 lines of code from scratch based on product specifications.
| Model | Provider | Code Ingestion | Cached Ingestion | Code Review Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Sonar Pro (Current) | perplexity | $0.336 | $0.084 | $0.672 | 200,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | openai | $0.204 | $0.0204 | $0.4488 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Workhorse | openai | $0.255 | $0.0255 | $0.561 | 256,000 |
| o3-mini | openai | $0.1122 | $0.0561 | $0.202 | 200,000 |
| o4-mini | openai | $0.1122 | $0.0281 | $0.202 | 256,000 |
| o1-mini | openai | $0.1122 | $0.0561 | $0.202 | 128,000 |
On average, code yields approximately 11.2 tokens per line in Perplexity Sonar Pro (tiktoken_cl100k tokenizer). Indentation, brackets, camelCase variable names, and comments slightly increase token density compared to plain English text. 10,000 lines of code produces approximately 112,000 tokens.
Sending 10,000 lines of code as context and generating a thorough code review with recommendations costs approximately $0.672. Utilizing prompt caching on repeat turns or static repository definitions drops this to $0.42.
Perplexity Sonar Pro has a context window of 200,000 tokens. 10,000 lines of code consumes 56.00% of its total available context.