How much does Sonar Medium Chat cost?

Sonar Medium Chat costs $0.60 per 1M input tokens and $1.80 per 1M output tokens. Prices are sourced from official Perplexity documentation.

Is Sonar Medium Chat available via API?

Yes. Sonar Medium Chat is available via the Perplexity AI API. Tickerr monitors its uptime and latency every 5 minutes.

Operational· provider status page

Input

$0.60

Output

$1.80

Cached input

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Batch input

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Effective from Apr 30, 2026. Source: official provider documentation.

Estimated monthly cost · 70% input / 30% output split

cheapestLlama 3.1.8b Instruct$0.200

Codellama 34b Instruct$0.665

Sonar Medium Chat$0.960

Llama 3.1.70b Instruct$1.00

Codellama 70b Instruct$1.33

Llama 2.70b Chat$1.33