Perplexity API pricing, checked at the source
Prices for the Perplexity Agent API, read off Perplexity's own pricing docs with a link on every row. Estimate a monthly bill below; search calls are billed on top.
Perplexity API prices per 1M tokens
Standard prices in USD. Each row links to Perplexity's pricing page and shows the day we checked it.
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| perplexity/sonar | $0.25 | $0.0625 | $2.50 | Agent API token price. Each web_search call adds $2.50 per 1,000 ($1.00 per 1,000 with Fast Search). | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| perplexity/kimi-k3 | $3.00 | $0.30 | $15.00 | Moonshot AI model hosted by Perplexity. web_search calls billed extra. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| perplexity/glm-5.3 | $1.40 | $0.26 | $4.40 | Z.AI model hosted by Perplexity. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| perplexity/glm-5.3-flash | $0.15 | $0.03 | $0.50 | Supports cache reads but not cache writes. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| perplexity/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 | $1.32 | $0.044 | $3.96 | DeepSeek model hosted by Perplexity. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| perplexity/nemotron-3.5-super-120b-a12b | $0.20 | $0.04 | $0.50 | NVIDIA model hosted by Perplexity. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
Terms on this page: Token · Prompt caching · Context window · Batch API
Estimate your Perplexity bill
Enter your monthly tokens and how they split between new input, cached input and output. The result updates as you type.
Write 40k, 250M or 5B. Input, cached input and output tokens together.
100M tokens a month costs from $9.79 (perplexity/glm-5.3-flash) to $203.40 (perplexity/kimi-k3).
| Model | Per month | Per 1M tokens at this split |
|---|---|---|
| perplexity/glm-5.3-flash | $9.79 | $0.0979 |
| perplexity/nemotron-3.5-super-120b-a12b | $12.22 | $0.1222 |
| perplexity/sonar | $25.38 | $0.25375 |
| perplexity/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 | $71.19 | $0.71192 |
| perplexity/glm-5.3 | $88.88 | $0.8888 |
| perplexity/kimi-k3 | $203.40 | $2.034 |
Standard prices in USD on 2026-10-25, before tax. Long-prompt tiers are left out; see the price table.
Perplexity embeddings prices
Prices per 1M input tokens. Embedding models have no output price.
| Model | Price as listed | Per 1M tokens | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pplx-embed-v1-0.6b | $0.004 per 1M tokens | $0.004 | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b | $0.008 per 1M tokens | $0.008 | Contextualized embeddings. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
| pplx-embed-v1-4b | $0.03 per 1M tokens | $0.03 | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 | |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-4b | $0.05 per 1M tokens | $0.05 | Contextualized embeddings. | Sourcechecked 2026-10-25 |
Write 40k, 250M or 5B.
100M tokens a month costs from $0.40 (pplx-embed-v1-0.6b) to $5.00 (pplx-embed-context-v1-4b).
| Model | Per month | Per 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|
| pplx-embed-v1-0.6b | $0.40 | $0.004 |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b | $0.80 | $0.008 |
| pplx-embed-v1-4b | $3.00 | $0.03 |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-4b | $5.00 | $0.05 |
List prices in USD on 2026-10-25, before tax, free tiers and add-ons. Rows billed another way are in the price table only.
How the bill is worked out
Sonar Chat Completions ended
Search is a separate tool fee
Search API
Service tiers
Perplexity API pricing questions
How much does the Perplexity API cost?
Perplexity bills its language models per million tokens, with separate prices for input, cached input and output. On 2026-10-25, standard prices ran from $0.15 (perplexity/glm-5.3-flash) to $3.00 (perplexity/kimi-k3) per 1M input tokens, and $0.50 (perplexity/glm-5.3-flash) to $15.00 (perplexity/kimi-k3) per 1M output tokens. Embeddings runs from $0.004 (pplx-embed-v1-0.6b) to $0.05 (pplx-embed-context-v1-4b) per 1M tokens.
Does Perplexity offer a batch discount?
Its pricing page lists no batch price for the rows here. Sonar Chat Completions support ended on September 27, 2026. Sync and streaming Sonar calls are being turned into Agent API requests. The perplexity/sonar model is now priced per token in the Agent API.
Where do these prices come from?
From Perplexity's own pricing page, https://docs.perplexity.ai/getting-started/pricing, checked on 2026-10-25. Every row links to it. When a price cannot be confirmed, the row says to check the vendor's page instead of showing a number.
What happened to Sonar Pro and the old search fees?
Perplexity ended Sonar Chat Completions on September 27, 2026. The perplexity/sonar model is now priced per token in the Agent API, and web search is a separate tool fee of $2.50 per 1,000 calls, or $1.00 with Fast Search.
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