Sonar pricing and specs
Sonar pricing and specsFast web-grounded Sonar for current answers, citations, and lightweight retrieval
Sonar price per 1M tokens
| Type | ₽ / 1M | $ / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| Input tokens | 84,51 ₽ | $1 |
| Output tokens | 84,51 ₽ | $1 |
Prices in rubles as of 18.09.2026 at the CBR rate: 1 $ = 84.51 ₽.
Sonar specs and limits
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 4K
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Family
- sonar
- Released
- 2024-01-01
- Updated
- 2025-09-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-09-01
What Sonar can do
- —Reasoning
- —Tool calling
- —Structured output
- —Attachments / files
- —Vision (images)
- ✓Temperature control
- —Open weights
Sonar benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score | Metric |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 22.9 | percent correct |
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Sonar API cost?
Input costs $1 per 1M tokens (84.51 ₽) and output costs $1 per 1M (84.51 ₽). Perplexity bills the prompt and the completion separately, so the price of a call depends on how long both are. Ruble figures use the Bank of Russia rate of 84.51 ₽ per dollar for September 2026.
How much do 1,000 Sonar tokens cost?
List prices are quoted per 1M tokens, so 1,000 tokens cost a thousandth of that: divide $1 for input and $1 for output by 1,000. The same rates in rubles are 84.51 ₽ and 84.51 ₽ per 1M tokens. Both prompt tokens and completion tokens are billed.
How many tokens does Sonar hold?
The Sonar context window is 128K tokens (128,000). Everything shares that budget: the system prompt, the dialogue history, attached files and the answer the model writes. The figure comes from the Perplexity model card as of September 2026.
What are the Sonar limits?
The context window is 128K tokens (128,000) and a single response is capped at 4K tokens, so longer output has to be generated in parts. Rate limits are set by Perplexity per account and depend on your plan rather than on the model, so they are not listed here.
How is the Sonar price in rubles calculated?
Providers quote their tariffs in US dollars, so the ruble amounts here are a conversion at the official Bank of Russia rate of 84.51 ₽ per dollar. For Sonar that gives 84.51 ₽ per 1M input tokens and 84.51 ₽ per 1M output tokens. When the rate moves, the ruble price moves with it.
How is Sonar different from other Perplexity models?
Sonar belongs to the Sonar family at Perplexity. Models in the Perplexity line differ in context size, price per 1M tokens and supported capabilities, so compare them by the numbers on their cards rather than by the name. Every Perplexity model is listed on the provider page.