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Sonar

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MedianThe median blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted.
$0.813
Most expensiveThe highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted.
$2.40
Offers
10
Providers
6

Cheapest right now

Vercel AI Gateway

The provider's published policy: prompts are not used for training.

$0.813 blended / 1M tokens

No change7D
in
$0.25
out
$2.50
Cached input
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Go to offer Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)via Vercel AI Gateway

Sonar costs from $0.813 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest of 3 comparable offers, at Vercel AI Gateway, checked on ; 10 offers are listed.

Listed offers, by price

Comparable offersOther offersSolid steps are comparable offers; dashed steps are the other offers, which are not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive.

Offers not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive (7)

  • $1.00 · Perplexity via Eden AI · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.00 · Perplexity via Kilo Gateway · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.00 · FastRouter via FastRouter · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.00 · Glama via Glama · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.00 · Martian via Martian · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.00 · Perplexity via Requesty · another route of the same provider
  • $1.00 · Perplexity via OpenRouter · another route of the same provider

Price historyThe cheapest offer each day, against the lab's official list price when it publishes one. Each day at 00:00 UTC, the offer the API would have selected as the cheapest, with the same exclusions as /cheapest. Blended price, promotions included.

Cheapest offer and official list price, by day, 30 days
DayCheapest offerOfficial list price
2026-10-02$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-03$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-04$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-05$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-06$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-07$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-08$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-09$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-10$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-11$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-12$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-13$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-14$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-15$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-16$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-17$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-18$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-19$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-20$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-21$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-22$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-23$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-24$0.813, Perplexity–
2026-10-25$0.813, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-26$0.813, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-27$0.813, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-28$0.813, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-29$0.813, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-30$0.813, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-31$0.813, Vercel AI Gateway–

Cheapest offer

Offers

10 of 10 offers

Offers for Sonar, one row per offer, sorted by blended price.
RankProvider · viaYou buy access through an aggregator: one account and one API that forward your requests to other providers. "Via" names the aggregator; the price is the one it charges you. When "via" says "hosted API", no aggregator is involved: the model belongs to a lab and another provider sells it.Input $/1MOutput $/1MBlended $/1MA single price that mixes input and output: 3 input tokens for 1 output token, per million tokens. It makes offers easy to rank; your real cost depends on your own mix. ContextThe maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut.ConditionsWhat a provider says about how it handles your data and who can sign up: training on prompts, processing region, sign-up requirements. Each comes from the provider's published documents; when nothing is published, it stays unknown.SignalsOffer
1 Vercel AI Gateway 0.25 2.50 0.813 –
Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)
2 Perplexityvia LLM Gateway 0.25 2.50 0.813 – Price drop observed: The blended price is 19% lower than before this drop; possibly temporary. · Price drop observed since Sep 25, 2026Fee 5%: LLM Gateway adds a 5% fee on credit usage, plus 1.5% for cards issued outside the US (read on llmgateway.io/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with the 5% included.
Go to offer at LLM Gateway (opens in a new tab)
3 Perplexityvia Eden AI 1.00 1.00 1.00  127k Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
: Eden AI (opens in a new tab). No public price page for this model
4 Perplexityvia Kilo Gateway 1.00 1.00 1.00  127k Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
: Kilo Gateway (opens in a new tab). No public price page for this model
5 FastRouter 1.00 1.00 1.00  127k Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
Go to offer at FastRouter (opens in a new tab)
6 Glama 1.00 1.00 1.00  128k Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
: Glama (opens in a new tab). No public price page for this model
7 Martian 1.00 1.00 1.00  – worldwide Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
See pricing at Martian (opens in a new tab)
8 Perplexityvia Requesty 1.00 1.00 1.00  131k Fee 5%: Requesty adds a 5% markup (read on requesty.ai/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with this fee included.
Go to offer at Requesty (opens in a new tab)
9 Perplexityvia OpenRouter 1.00 1.00 1.00  127k Fee 5.5%: OpenRouter adds a 5.5% fee when you buy credits (read on openrouter.ai/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with this fee included.
Go to offer at OpenRouter (opens in a new tab)
10 EmpirioLabs AI 2.40 2.40 2.40  127k
See pricing at EmpirioLabs AI (opens in a new tab)

No training on promptsPrompts may be used for trainingTraining terms not published

backend not named. The router bills this price itself without naming who serves the model.

Blended = (3 × input + output) / 4, per million tokens. Prices in USD, converted at the ECB rate when the provider bills in another currency.

Method

Monthly cost for your workload

Computed by the API for the three cheapest offers, per 30-day month.
  1. Vercel AI Gateway$52.50per month
  2. Perplexity$52.50per month+$0.00 vs the cheapest
  3. EmpirioLabs AI$180.00per month+$127.50 vs the cheapest

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