Today's price · per 1M tokens
Input
$1.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.00
per 1M tokens
Blended
$1.00
blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output
Source: official Perplexity pricing · read Jun 25, 2026
MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-09
Overview
Perplexity's lightweight web-grounded model — real-time web search with cited, conversational answers for quick factual lookups. $1/$1 per 1M tokens plus per-request search fees.
Capabilities
struck through = not supportedInput 1/5
Text ✓
Image
Audio
Video
PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓
Image
Audio
Video
Embedding
Features 2/9
Prompt caching
Reasoning
Coding
Fast inference
Long context ✓
Open weights
Multimodal
Web search ✓
Realtime
Benchmark performance
accuracy % · higher is better150 tokens/sec output
Source: n/a · updated Mar 1, 2026 · See full rankings →
Specifications
- Provider
- Perplexity
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Modality
- text
- Parameters
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No — proprietary
- Released
- Feb 1, 2025
- Status
- Current
- Last updated
- Jun 25, 2026
- Tags
Availability verified: Not re-verified. We have no recent evidence that Perplexity still lists this model — treat availability as unconfirmed.