Perplexity — pricing & performance
Models served
5
of 908 tracked models
Mean output speed
72
tokens per second, averaged over
5 measured endpoints
5 measured endpoints
Mean latency
21.4s
time to first token, averaged over
5 measured endpoints
5 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$1.00
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
input:output blend
Output speed on Perplexity
Median output tokens per second for each model this host serves, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.
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The Known Good
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| Model | Creator | Input $/M | Output $/M | Blended | Speed | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Perplexity: Sonar
|
Perplexity | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | 79 | 1.8s | 127k |
|
Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research
|
Perplexity | $2.00 | $8.00 | $3.50 | 50 | 86.4s | 128k |
|
Perplexity: Sonar Pro
|
Perplexity | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | 92 | 1.7s | 200k |
|
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
|
Perplexity | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | 104 | 3.2s | 200k |
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Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro
|
Perplexity | $2.00 | $8.00 | $3.50 | 38 | 14.0s | 128k |
The Known Good
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.