A standard 1 page document (~500 words / 667 tokens) costs $0.002001 to ingest and $0.009501 to generate a comprehensive executive summary using Perplexity Sonar Pro.
Feed the entire 1 page document into context to extract fields, entities, or answer queries.
Ingest 1 page and generate a structured 500-token executive summary with key takeaways.
Translate or reformat the entire 1 page document into an equivalent length output.
| Model | Provider | Ingestion (1 page) | Cached Ingestion | Summary Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Sonar Pro (Current) | perplexity | $0.002001 | $0.0005 | $0.009501 | 200,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | openai | $0.00128 | $0.000128 | $0.00728 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Workhorse | openai | $0.0016 | $0.00016 | $0.0091 | 256,000 |
| o3-mini | openai | $0.000704 | $0.000352 | $0.002904 | 200,000 |
| o4-mini | openai | $0.000704 | $0.000176 | $0.002904 | 256,000 |
| o1-mini | openai | $0.000704 | $0.000352 | $0.002904 | 128,000 |
Assuming a standard single-spaced document with ~500 words per page, a 1 page document contains approximately 500 words, which translates to roughly 667 tokens using Perplexity Sonar Pro's tokenizer. Dense PDF tables, legal boilerplate, and OCR scans may increase this by 20–30%.
Perplexity Sonar Pro has a context window of 200,000 tokens. A 1 page document consumes only 0.33% of its total window, easily fitting in a single prompt without requiring chunking or vector search.
Ingesting the document and outputting a concise 500-token executive summary costs $0.009501. Using 24-hour async batch API queues drops this cost to $0.00475.
If your workflow repeatedly queries or chats with this same 1 page document, prompt caching reduces subsequent turn input costs by up to 90% (to $0.0005 per turn instead of $0.002001).