Is Perplexity a good LLM API provider?

Perplexity offers 25 models with an average blended price of $1.26/1M tokens. They rank #10 on the Sector HQ rankings.

Perplexity LLM API Pricing

Perplexity's cheapest model is Sonar Small Online at $0.070 per million tokens (blended). Input tokens cost Free/1M and output tokens cost $0.280/1M.

Models

$0.070

Cheapest/1M

$1.26

Avg Price/1M

Free Models

Perplexity's cheapest LLM is Sonar Small Online at $0.070 per million tokens (blended). They offer 25 models total.

21 models

#	Model	Provider	Input	Output	Quality	Released↓
18	Sonar Deep Research	Perplexity	$2.00	$8.00	—	Feb 19
21	Sonar Pro	Perplexity	$3.00	$15.00	—	Feb 19
1	Sonar Small Online	Perplexity	Free	$0.280	—	Nov 18
3	Sonar Small Chat	Perplexity	$0.070	$0.280	—	Nov 18
8	Sonar Medium Online	Perplexity	Free	$1.80	—	Nov 18
11	Sonar Medium Chat	Perplexity	$0.600	$1.80	—	Nov 18
12	Sonar	Perplexity	$1.00	$1.00	—	Nov 18
17	Sonar Reasoning	Perplexity	$1.00	$5.00	—	Nov 18
19	Sonar Reasoning Pro	Perplexity	$2.00	$8.00	—	Nov 18
6	Llama 3.1 Sonar Small 128K Online	Perplexity	$0.200	$0.200	—	Jul 23
7	Llama 3.1 Sonar Small 128K Chat	Perplexity	$0.200	$0.200	—	Jul 23
13	Llama 3.1 Sonar Large 128K Chat	Perplexity	$1.00	$1.00	—	Jul 23
14	Llama 3.1 Sonar Large 128K Online	Perplexity	$1.00	$1.00	—	Jul 23
20	Llama 3.1 Sonar Huge 128K Online	Perplexity	$5.00	$5.00	—	Jul 23
2	Pplx 7B Online	Perplexity	Free	$0.280	—	Jan 1
4	Pplx 7B Chat	Perplexity	$0.070	$0.280	—	Jan 1
10	Pplx 70B Online	Perplexity	Free	$2.80	—	Jan 1
15	Pplx 70B Chat	Perplexity	$0.700	$2.80	—	Jan 1
5	Mixtral 8x7b Instruct	Perplexity	$0.070	$0.280	Good	Dec 8
9	Codellama 34B Instruct	Perplexity	$0.350	$1.40	—	Aug 24
16	Codellama 70B Instruct	Perplexity	$0.700	$2.80	—	Aug 24

Perplexity offers 25 models tracked on Sector HQ. The cheapest model starts at $0.070 per million tokens (blended rate).