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Perplexity — pricing & performance

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Models served
5
of 1,094 tracked models
Mean output speed
43
tokens per second, averaged over
5 measured endpoints
Mean latency
36.2s
time to first token, averaged over
5 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$1.00
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
Output speed on Perplexity

Output tokens per second for all 5 models on Perplexity with published throughput telemetry, the most recent figure OpenRouter publishes for each host. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.

All 5 of 5 models⇩
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5 models on Perplexity
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Model Creator Input $/M Output $/M Blended Speed TTFT Context
Perplexity: Sonar Perplexity $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 56 2.7s 127k
Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research Perplexity $2.00 $8.00 $3.50 39 134.4s 128k
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Perplexity $3.00 $15.00 $6.00 66 3.3s 200k
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search Perplexity $3.00 $15.00 $6.00 44 3.7s 200k
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro Perplexity $2.00 $8.00 $3.50 10 37.1s 128k
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Source. Prices, endpoint availability and throughput for Perplexity are ingested from OpenRouter; model metadata is enriched from models.dev. A blank cell means the figure was not published for that endpoint — it never means zero. Blended price is (3 × input + output) ÷ 4, the same 3:1 blend used everywhere on this site; see methodology. Quality scores are not provider-specific: a model scores the same wherever it is hosted, so quality lives on the model pages.