1 million Perplexity Sonar tokens cost $1.00 as input or $1.00 as output. Most workloads land in between — a 70/30 input/output split costs about $1.00. Verified Aug 19, 2026
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1,000,000 in · 0 out
Input price
$1.00 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.00 / 1M tokens
Uncached pricing. Add caching and monthly projections in the full calculator.
What 1 million tokens buys in practice
$1.00
80% input / 20% output — short replies over conversation history.
$1.00
90% input / 10% output — long retrieved context, grounded answers.
$1.00
95% input / 5% output — full documents in, structured extraction out.
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1 million input tokens cost $1.00; 1 million output tokens cost $1.00. A typical 70/30 input/output mix costs about $1.00. Rates: $1.00/M input, $1.00/M output.
A chat-style request of ~4,800 tokens (4,000 in + 800 out) means 1 million tokens is roughly 208 requests. For a RAG workload with ~8,500 tokens per request, about 118 requests.
Perplexity Sonar has no published cached-input discount on its official pricing page; all input is billed at $1.00/M.