Sonar pricing

What Sonar costs per task

Token counts estimated from a measured model of the same lab (MiniMax M3), rescaled by tokenizer. Reasoning tokens are billed as output.

Task	Cost	Tokens used	Price rank	Basis
Answer a chat question	0.11¢$1.13 / 1,000	205 in · 447 out · 482 reasoning	109 of 336	estimated
Reply to a customer email	0.09¢$0.86 / 1,000	417 in · 260 out · 187 reasoning	155 of 336	estimated
Write a 1,500-word blog post	0.24¢$2.44 / 1,000	219 in · 1,774 out · 442 reasoning	73 of 336	estimated
Write 10 product descriptions	0.20¢$2.04 / 1,000	441 in · 1,071 out · 531 reasoning	69 of 336	estimated
Translate 1,000 words	0.72¢$7.21 / 1,000	1,473 in · 1,207 out · 4,535 reasoning	156 of 336	estimated
Proofread one page (500 words)	0.19¢$1.94 / 1,000	874 in · 651 out · 416 reasoning	147 of 336	estimated
Summarize a 20-page PDF	1.4¢$13.61 / 1,000	12,901 in · 462 out · 246 reasoning	216 of 336	estimated
Extract data from an invoice	0.14¢$1.39 / 1,000	536 in · 563 out · 289 reasoning	128 of 336	estimated
Analyze a 200-row spreadsheet	≥2.1¢$20.94 / 1,000	4,940 in · 153 out · 15,847 reasoning	168 of 336	estimated
Answer from 5 retrieved documents (RAG)	0.50¢$5.03 / 1,000	3,773 in · 822 out · 437 reasoning	170 of 336	estimated
Classify 100 support tickets	0.34¢$3.35 / 1,000	1,424 in · 441 out · 1,485 reasoning	114 of 336	estimated
Review 500 lines of code	0.73¢$7.35 / 1,000	4,762 in · 2,588 out	118 of 336	estimated
Write a SQL query	0.10¢$0.97 / 1,000	272 in · 702 out	105 of 336	estimated
Run a 50-step coding agent	$2.25$2,246 / 1,000	2,221,837 in · 14,895 out · 9,350 reasoning	294 of 336	modeled

Price at every provider

List prices per 1M tokens (input / output) at each host serving Sonar through OpenRouter today. Hosts can differ in quantization, context and speed.

Provider	Input / output	Cached input	Context	Uptime
Perplexityunknown	$1.00 / $1.00	-	127K	100%

Price history

First seen in our price history on Feb 13, 2025 at $1.00 input / $1.00 output. The list price has not changed since.

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