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Sonar Pro Search

Perplexity · released October 2025

Sonar Pro Search is a Perplexity model with a 200K token context window — about 290 pages of text. It reads Text and Images and replies in Text. It can show its reasoning before it answers.

$3.45

input / 1M tokens

$17.25

output / 1M tokens

200K

context — about 290 pages

3.1¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$3.45 per million tokens
Output
$17.25 per million tokens
Web search
2.1¢ per search

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
Perplexity
Released
October 2025 (2025-10-30)
Context window
200K tokens — about 290 pages
Max output
8K tokens per reply
Input
Text and Images
Output
Text
Reasoning
Shows its thinking before answering

Cost vs Token Amount

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Sonar Pro Search

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Sonar Pro Search

Perplexity

1.6¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

Full pricing →

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 322 of these.

Compare Sonar Pro Search

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Questions, answered

How much does Sonar Pro Search cost on Alyph?

Sonar Pro Search costs $3.45 per million input tokens and $17.25 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 3.1¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is Sonar Pro Search's context window?

200K tokens — about 290 pages. Replies can be up to 8K tokens long.

Can Sonar Pro Search read images and files?

Sonar Pro Search reads Text and Images. Drop a file onto the canvas and it becomes part of the context — the only limit is the context window.

Does Sonar Pro Search show its reasoning?

Yes. Sonar Pro Search can expose its thinking before the final answer, so you can watch how it got there.

Test Sonar Pro Search against Claude Sonnet 4

One prompt, both models at the same time, the better answer wins. Free to start, with $5 of credit.

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