Processing 250 lines of code (~2,800 tokens) with Perplexity Sonar Deep Research costs $0.0056 for codebase ingestion and $0.0101 for an AI-powered code review and refactoring pass.
Feed 250 lines of code into the prompt context for repository search, Q&A, or architecture planning.
Ingest 250 lines of code and generate audit findings, unit test recommendations, and refactor diffs.
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research writes 250 lines of code from scratch based on product specifications.
| Model | Provider | Code Ingestion | Cached Ingestion | Code Review Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Sonar Deep Research (Current) | perplexity | $0.0056 | $0.0014 | $0.0101 | 128,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | openai | $0.0128 | $0.001275 | $0.0281 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Cyber | openai | $0.0319 | $0.003188 | $0.0701 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Standard | openai | $0.0128 | $0.001275 | $0.0281 | 512,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | openai | $0.0765 | $0.00765 | $0.1683 | 512,000 |
| o3-pro (Frontier Reasoning) | openai | $0.051 | $0.0051 | $0.0918 | 1,000,000 |
On average, code yields approximately 11.2 tokens per line in Perplexity Sonar Deep Research (tiktoken_cl100k tokenizer). Indentation, brackets, camelCase variable names, and comments slightly increase token density compared to plain English text. 250 lines of code produces approximately 2,800 tokens.
Sending 250 lines of code as context and generating a thorough code review with recommendations costs approximately $0.0101. Utilizing prompt caching on repeat turns or static repository definitions drops this to $0.00588.
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research has a context window of 128,000 tokens. 250 lines of code consumes 2.19% of its total available context.