Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
Sonar Pro Search is a reasoning model from Perplexity released on Oct 30, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 200K token context window and up to 8K tokens per reply.
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It costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
It supports structured JSON output.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $3 / $15 per 1M
- Context
- 200K
- Max output
- 8K
- Released
- Oct 30, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Sonar Pro Search pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $3 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $15 / 1M tokens |
What Sonar Pro Search costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Sonar Pro Search through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Sonar Pro Search questions
How much does the Sonar Pro Search API cost?
$3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Sonar Pro Search?
200,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 8,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Sonar Pro Search support tool calling?
Not through the standard tools parameter. For an agent that calls your APIs, pick a model from the alternatives below that does.
Is Sonar Pro Search open source?
No. Perplexity serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Sonar Pro Search released?
Oct 30, 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Sonar Pro Search?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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