A standard 50 pages document (~25,000 words / 33,325 tokens) costs $0.10 to ingest and $0.1075 to generate a comprehensive executive summary using Perplexity Sonar Pro.
Feed the entire 50 pages document into context to extract fields, entities, or answer queries.
Ingest 50 pages and generate a structured 500-token executive summary with key takeaways.
Translate or reformat the entire 50 pages document into an equivalent length output.
| Model | Provider | Ingestion (50 pages) | Cached Ingestion | Summary Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Sonar Pro (Current) | perplexity | $0.10 | $0.025 | $0.1075 | 200,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | openai | $0.064 | $0.0064 | $0.07 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Workhorse | openai | $0.08 | $0.008 | $0.0875 | 256,000 |
| o3-mini | openai | $0.0352 | $0.0176 | $0.0374 | 200,000 |
| o4-mini | openai | $0.0352 | $0.0088 | $0.0374 | 256,000 |
| o1-mini | openai | $0.0352 | $0.0176 | $0.0374 | 128,000 |
Assuming a standard single-spaced document with ~500 words per page, a 50 pages document contains approximately 25,000 words, which translates to roughly 33,325 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 50 pages document consumes only 16.66% 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 $0.1075. Using 24-hour async batch API queues drops this cost to $0.0537.
If your workflow repeatedly queries or chats with this same 50 pages document, prompt caching reduces subsequent turn input costs by up to 90% (to $0.025 per turn instead of $0.10).