Perplexity · text model · retiring

Sonar Pro

Name: Sonar Pro
Brand: Perplexity
Price: 3.0000 USD

Not scored yet on overall. $10.50 per 1,000 support replies at list price.

List price, not verified yet

key_facts.txt

Released: 1 Jan 2024
Context window: 200K tokens
Longest reply: 8K tokens
Open weights: No
Reasoning mode: No
Tool use: No
Reads: text, image
Writes: text
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-09-01

scores.txt

Overall–

Writing–

Support–

Coding–

Value–

Provisional, 0 to 100 among the text models we track, from Arena and Epoch AI. How we score.

Prices and where to run it

Provider	Region	Input per 1M	Output per 1M	Cached input	Data retention	Checked
perplexity	global	$3.00	$15.00	–	Not checked	List price, unverified

Price history and a CSV download arrive with the open price dataset.

call_it.sh

Call it through OpenRouter

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "perplexity/sonar-pro", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

Not listed on OpenRouter; use the vendor’s own API.

next.txt

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