Perplexity
AI company best known for its search assistant. Also offers the Sonar model family via API: Sonar (fast, grounded), Sonar Pro (more capable), and Sonar Reasoning (chain-of-thought). All models include real-time web search grounding by default. Own models · OpenAI-compatible API · Reasoning · Search Grounding · Web Search
Intelligence vs Price
Best value among Perplexity models on this chart: Claude Opus 5 · GLM-5.3 · GLM-5.3 Flash (and 2 more on the dashed frontier). Prices use each model's lowest available Perplexity price across regions. Hover any dot for full pricing, or click a creator in the legend to isolate.
Perplexity models
67 models in Global, 62 with pricing| Select | Model | Creator | Input Price, $ | Output Price, $ | Context | Max Output | Inference Providers | Intelligence | Coding |
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| Claude Opus 5 |  Anthropic | 5.00 | 25.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #1 | #2 | ||
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 10.00 | 50.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #2 | #5 | ||
| GPT-5.6 Sol |  OpenAI | 5.00 | 30.00 | 1.1M | 128K | #3 | #1 | ||
| GLM-5.3 |  Zhipu AI | 1.40 | 4.40 | 1.3M | 944K | #4 | #9 | ||
| Grok 4.6 |  xAI | 2.00 | 6.00 | 524K | 450K | #5 | #3 | ||
| Kimi K3 |  Moonshot AI (Kimi) | 3.00 | 15.00 | 1.0M | 944K | #6 | #6 | ||
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | 2.00 | 12.00 | 1.1M | 128K | #7 | #4 | ||
| GLM-5.3 Flash | Zhipu AI | 0.15 | 0.5 | 1.3M | 944K | #9 | #14 | ||
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 5.00 | 25.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #8 | #10 | ||
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | 5.00 | 25.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #10 | #11 | ||
| Gemini 3.7 Flash |  Google | 0.75 | 3.75 | 1.0M | 66K | #11 | #7 | ||
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | 2.50 | 15.00 | 1.1M | 128K | #12 | #16 | ||
| Grok 4.5 | xAI | 2.00 | 6.00 | 500K | 450K | #13 | #12 | ||
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | 5.00 | 30.00 | 1.1M | 128K | #14 | #8 | ||
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 2.00 | 10.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #15 | #13 | ||
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | 0.2 | 1.20 | 1.1M | 128K | #16 | #15 | ||
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Google | 1.50 | 7.50 | 1.0M | 66K | #17 | #18 | ||
| GLM-5.2 | Zhipu AI | 1.40 | 4.40 | 1.0M | 944K | #18 | #20 | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Google | 1.50 | 9.00 | 1.0M | 66K | #19 | #17 | ||
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | 5.00 | 25.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #20 | N/A | ||
| GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 1.75 | 14.00 | 410K | 128K | #21 | N/A | ||
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | 3.00 | 15.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #22 | #21 | ||
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Google | 2.00 | 12.00 | 1.0M | 66K | #23 | #19 | ||
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 5.00 | 25.00 | 410K | 64K | #24 | N/A | ||
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot AI (Kimi) | 0.95 | 4.00 | 262K | 236K | #25 | #22 | ||
| Grok 4.3 | xAI | 1.25 | 2.50 | 1.0M | 900K | #26 | #30 | ||
| GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | 1.25 | 10.00 | 410K | 128K | #27 | #26 | ||
| GPT-5.4 Mini | OpenAI | 0.75 | 4.50 | 400K | 128K | #28 | #23 | ||
| GPT-5 | OpenAI | 1.25 | 10.00 | 410K | 128K | #29 | #31 | ||
| Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B |  NVIDIA | 0.25 | 2.50 | 1.0M | 461K | #30 | #28 | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Google | 0.3 | 2.50 | 1.0M | 66K | #31 | #27 | ||
| GPT-5.4 Nano | OpenAI | 0.2 | 1.25 | 400K | 128K | #33 | #24 | ||
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | 3.00 | 15.00 | 1.0M | 64K | #32 | #25 | ||
| GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | 0.25 | 2.00 | 1.0M | 128K | #34 | #32 | ||
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | 1.00 | 5.00 | 200K | 64K | #35 | #29 | ||
| Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning | xAI | 1.25 | 2.50 | 2.0M | 8K | #36 | N/A | ||
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | Perplexity | 2.00 | 8.00 | 128K | 115K | #37 | N/A | ||
| Sonar Reasoning | Perplexity | 1.00 | 5.00 | 128K | 8K | #38 | N/A | ||
| Sonar | Perplexity | 1.00 | 1.00 | 128K | 114K | #39 | N/A | ||
| Sonar Pro | Perplexity | 3.00 | 15.00 | 200K | 8K | #40 | N/A | ||
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct |  Meta | 0.2 | 0.2 | 200K | 128K | #41 | #33 | ||
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | Meta | 1.00 | 1.00 | 131K | 16K | #42 | N/A | ||
| Llama 2 70B Chat | Meta | 0.7 | 2.80 | 4K | 4K | #43 | N/A | ||
| Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |  Mistral AI | 0.07 | 0.28 | 33K | 16K | #44 | N/A | ||
| Mistral 7B Instruct | Mistral AI | 0.07 | 0.28 | 127K | 16K | #45 | N/A | ||
| Code Llama 34B Instruct | Meta | 0.35 | 1.40 | 16K | 16K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Code Llama 70B Instruct | Meta | 0.7 | 2.80 | 16K | 16K | N/A | N/A | ||
| DeepSeek V4 731 Flash |  DeepSeek | 0.13 | 0.26 | 1.3M | 944K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Google | 0.5 | 3.00 | 1.0M | 66K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Google | 0.25 | 1.50 | 1.0M | 66K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | xAI | 1.25 | 2.50 | 2.0M | 1.8M | N/A | N/A | ||
| Grok 4.20 Reasoning | xAI | 1.25 | 2.50 | 2.0M | 8K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Nemotron 3.5 30B A3B Lightning | NVIDIA | 0.0115 | 0.17 | 262K | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 70B Chat | Perplexity | 0.7 | 2.80 | 4K | 4K | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 70B Online | Perplexity | N/A | 2.80 | 4K | 4K | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 7B Chat | Perplexity | 0.07 | 0.28 | 8K | 8K | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX 7B Online | Perplexity | N/A | 0.28 | 4K | 4K | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed 1.0 0.6B | Perplexity | 0.004 | N/A | 33K | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed 1.4B | Perplexity | 0.03 | N/A | 33K | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed Context 1 0.6B | Perplexity | 0.008 | N/A | 33K | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| PPLX Embed Context 1.4B | Perplexity | 0.05 | N/A | 33K | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Search | Perplexity | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Deep Research | Perplexity | 2.00 | 8.00 | 128K | 115K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Medium Chat | Perplexity | 0.6 | 1.80 | 16K | 16K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Medium Online | Perplexity | N/A | 1.80 | 12K | 12K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Small Chat | Perplexity | 0.07 | 0.28 | 16K | 16K | N/A | N/A | ||
| Sonar Small Online | Perplexity | N/A | 0.28 | 12K | 12K | N/A | N/A |