Calculate the cost of using sonar-medium-online from Perplexity for your AI applications
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Mode: Chat
Max: 12,000 tokens
Max: 12,000 tokens
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sonar-medium-online is a chat model from Perplexity. It accepts up to 12K input tokens.
Note: Use the interactive calculator above to estimate costs for your specific usage patterns.
Use the maximum token limits shown above to understand the model's capacity. This model can handle up to 12,000 input tokens. The maximum output length is 12,000 tokens.
Similar chat models from other providers
Yes. sonar-medium-online costs $0.0000 per 1M input tokens compared to ai21.j2-mid-v1's $12.50 per 1M input tokens. Both are chat models.
The most comparable chat models to sonar-medium-online are: ai21.j2-mid-v1 from AWS Bedrock ($12.50/1M input tokens); ai21.j2-ultra-v1 from AWS Bedrock ($18.80/1M input tokens); ai21.jamba-1-5-large-v1:0 from AWS Bedrock ($2.00/1M input tokens); ai21.jamba-1-5-mini-v1:0 from AWS Bedrock ($0.20/1M input tokens). These alternatives were selected based on similar capabilities, pricing, and provider diversity. You can compare any of these models in detail using the Bifrost Model Library.
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sonar-medium-online is priced based on input and output tokens. Use the interactive calculator at the top of this page to estimate costs for your specific workload. Enter your expected input and output tokens volume and the calculator will show the total cost breakdown. For reference, processing 1M input tokens costs $0.0000 and generating 1M output tokens costs $1.80.
