Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search

perplexity/sonar-pro-search

Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis.

Modalities
In / out per 1M$3.00 / $15
Context195K
ReleasedOct 30, 2025

Providers

1 provider serves this model upstream.

Providers serving this model
ProviderInput /MOutput /MCache read /MLatency P50Throughput P50Uptime
Perplexity$3.00$15Variable11.79s10 tps100%

Market-wide measurements, refreshed every 15 minutes. They describe who serves Sonar Pro Search in general, not how ProjectCOZY routes your requests.

Pricing

List rates per 1M tokens — what Sonar Pro Search costs pay-as-you-go elsewhere, not what you pay here.

Input
$3.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$15
per 1M tokens
Cache read
—
not published
Included in every pass
Sonar Pro Search is included in every ProjectCOZY pass at no extra cost — one flat rate, no per-token metering. The rates above are there for comparison.

Performance

Time to first token and output speed across every provider, over the last 3 days.

0.0s50.0s100.0s150.0s200.0s
Oct 11, 12 AMOct 11, 8 AMOct 11, 4 PMOct 12, 12 AMOct 12, 8 AMOct 12, 4 PMOct 13, 12 AMOct 13, 8 AMOct 13, 4 PMOct 14, 12 AMOct 14, 8 AM
Median 90th percentile 99th percentile
0 tok/s50 tok/s100 tok/s150 tok/s200 tok/s
Oct 11, 12 AMOct 11, 8 AMOct 11, 4 PMOct 12, 12 AMOct 12, 8 AMOct 12, 4 PMOct 13, 12 AMOct 13, 8 AMOct 13, 4 PMOct 14, 12 AMOct 14, 8 AM
Median 90th percentile 99th percentile

Uptime

100% of requests were served successfully over the last 3 days, across all providers.

Last 3 daysAvailability 99.83%
Oct 11, 2:00 PMNow
Availability over the last 24 hoursAvailability 99.81%
100% 97% 93% 90%
Oct 13, 2:50 PMNow

Apps

Tools that most often run Sonar Pro Search, by tokens this week.

Activity

1.0B tokens processed market-wide in the last month.

020.0M40.0M60.0M80.0M
Sep 14Sep 19Sep 24Sep 29Oct 4Oct 9Oct 14
Tokens

FAQ

Which model id do I use for Sonar Pro Search?
perplexity/sonar-pro-search. Send it as the model field from any OpenAI-compatible client, against http://192.168.1.55/v1.
How much context does Sonar Pro Search hold?
200,000 tokens per request, of which up to 8,000 can be the response.
What can it accept and return?
Input: text, image. Output: text.
What does Sonar Pro Search cost on a pass?
Nothing beyond the pass itself. Pay-as-you-go elsewhere it lists at $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens.
Who built Sonar Pro Search?
Perplexity, in the Sonar family.

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