PPLX 7B Chat is Perplexity's language model with a 8K context window and up to 8K output tokens, starting at $0.07 / 1M input and $0.28 / 1M output. A compact 7B Perplexity chat model for efficient conversational AI without web search, suited for low-latency deployments.
Specifications
Canonical IDperplexity-pplx-7b-chat
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorPerplexityPerplexity
Providers
Context Window8K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters7B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Perplexity
perplexity/pplx-7b-chat
$0.07$0.28

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host PPLX 7B Chat, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 17 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hrus-east4
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hrus-east-1
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hrus-east4
7 more instances can run PPLX 7B Chat
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
PPLX Embed Context 1 0.6B$0.008Available
PPLX Embed Context 1.4B$0.050Available
PPLX 7B Chat8K$0.070$0.280Current
PPLX 70B Chat4K$0.700$2.80Available
PPLX 70B Online4K$2.80Available
PPLX 7B Online4K$0.280Available

Model IDs

perplexity-pplx-7b-chat
perplexity/pplx-7b-chat