Perplexity API pricing and cost calculator
Estimate Perplexity Sonar token costs. Search and tools are billed on top of tokens, so this page also lists those fees.
Prices last verified against official provider pages on . How we verify prices. Written by the Chelure Enterprises Editorial Team.
Tokens plus search fees
Perplexity Sonar costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.062. That is the token price only. Perplexity bills search and tools separately: the Search API costs $5 per 1,000 requests ($1 per 1,000 for Fast Search), and in the Agent API the standard web_search tool costs $2.50 per 1,000 (Fast Search $1 per 1,000).
Other Perplexity fees
- fetch_url: $0.0005 per call. image_search: $0.0025 per successful call.
- people_search and finance_search: $5 per 1,000 calls.
- Sandbox sessions: $0.03 per session (20-minute billing window), plus $0.0025 per search query made inside it.
- Embeddings: from $0.004 per million tokens (pplx-embed-v1-0.6b) to $0.05 per million (contextualized 4B).
Perplexity also resells other models
Perplexity's Agent API lists models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Z.ai and NVIDIA, each priced per token. The rows we compared for Claude, GPT and Gemini matched the model makers' own prices. Perplexity's flex and priority service tiers (0.5x and 2x token prices) apply only to its OpenAI models, not to Sonar.
A worked example
With 1,500 input and 400 output tokens per request and 1,000 requests a day, Sonar costs about $41.25 a month in tokens. If every request also triggers one standard web search at $2.50 per 1,000, add about $75.00 a month.
Perplexity Sonar price per million tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Sonar | $0.25 | $2.50 | $0.062 |
Source: Perplexity Agent API models and the Perplexity pricing pages, verified November 13, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Perplexity Sonar cost?
Sonar costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, plus separate fees for search.
How is the Perplexity Search API priced?
$5 per 1,000 successful requests, or $1 per 1,000 for Fast Search. Failed, invalid and rate-limited requests are not billed.
Can I use Claude or GPT through Perplexity?
Perplexity's Agent API lists models from several providers with per-token prices. The Sonar calculator covers only Perplexity's own Sonar model.
Cite this page: Perplexity API pricing. Createchz AI Tools, verified November 13, 2026. https://createchz.com/ai-costs/perplexity-api-pricing/