2026-10-13 13:07 UTC · perplexity/api-pricing · live page
Summary by fallback. It may be wrong; the diff below is what actually changed. Raw: 86f71560a1-perplexity-api-pricing.diff · commit 86f71560a1
diff --git a/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.md b/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.mdindex ba36501..dccd636 100644--- a/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.md+++ b/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.md@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This page shows pricing information to help you understand API costs.For billing ## Estimate your cost -## Router API Pricing+## Orchestrator API Pricing -Router API usage is billed per token at each model's published rates — there are no per-request fees. Every model has its own input and output rate, with cache reads billed at the model's discounted cache-read rate and reasoning tokens billed at the output rate. You are always billed at the requested model's rates, regardless of how the request is served. See Router Models & Pricing for the full per-model rate card, including cache-write rates and long-context pricing.+Orchestrator API usage is billed per token at each model's published rates — there are no per-request fees. Every model has its own input and output rate, with cache reads billed at the model's discounted cache-read rate and reasoning tokens billed at the output rate. You are always billed at the requested model's rates, regardless of how the request is served. See Orchestrator Models & Pricing for the full per-model rate card, including cache-write rates and long-context pricing. ## Agent API Pricing@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ The Decisions API answers yes/no, multiple-choice, and scored questions about te | Model | Price ($/1M input tokens) | Output tokens | Per-request fee | |---|---|---|---|-| `pplx-decider-v1-27b` | $0.04 | Free | None |+| `pplx-decider-v1.1-27b` | $0.02 | Free | None |+| `pplx-decider-v1-27b` | $0.02 | Free | None | -Billing unit: you pay for input tokens only. The `state`, every question, and any images count as input; the response reports the exact number as `usage.input_tokens`, so you can compute the cost of a request from the response you already receive. A request with 600 input tokens costs $0.000024.+Billing unit: you pay for input tokens only. The `state`, every question, and any images count as input; the response reports the exact number as `usage.input_tokens`, so you can compute the cost of a request from the response you already receive. A request with 600 input tokens costs $0.000012. ## View Decisions API Documentation@@ -108,5 +109,5 @@ Example: "The weather in New York is currently sunny with a temperature of 72°F Search context size is not the same as the context window. -- Search context size: How much web information is retrieved during search+- Search context size (Sonar only): How much web information is retrieved during search, set with `web_search_options.search_context_size` - Context window: Maximum tokens the model can process in one request (affects token limits) @@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ Token Calculation: 1 token ≈ 4 characters in English text. The exact count may | Model input tokens | $0.001 | | Model output tokens | $0.003 |-| `web_search` | $0.0025 |+| `web_search` (Fast Search) | $0.001 | | `fetch_url` | $0.0005 |-| Total | $0.007 |+| Total | $0.0055 | Actual preset costs vary with the selected model, token usage, and tool invocations. When present on a completed response, `usage.cost.total_cost` reports the calculated request cost.