Perplexity Sonar API

Free $5 credit for new accounts. Sonar $1/1000 requests + $1/M tokens. Sonar Reasoning Pro $5/1000 requests. Enterprise custom.

Free tier with generous rate limits for evaluation. Usage-based from $0.05/million tokens for small models to $0.90/million for large models. Enterprise custom pricing.

Review Perplexity's API data handling policy. Web search queries and API request content are processed on Perplexity's infrastructure.

Review Groq's data handling policy. Groq uses its own LPU hardware, not third-party cloud providers, for inference. Enterprise includes data processing agreements.

• ✓Real-time web search overcomes the training data cutoff limitation for current information
• ✓OpenAI-compatible API enables straightforward integration for existing OpenAI users
• ✓Cited sources improve answer verifiability for research applications
• ✓$1/1000 requests is accessible for development and moderate-traffic production

• ✓Fastest LLM inference available using custom LPU hardware
• ✓Significantly lower latency than GPU-based alternatives for real-time applications
• ✓Competitive pricing for fast inference
• ✓OpenAI-compatible API makes switching straightforward

• ✕Real-time search adds latency compared to direct LLM inference
• ✕Search quality depends on Perplexity's web indexing coverage
• ✕More expensive than direct LLM inference for applications without current information needs

• ✕Limited model selection compared to Hugging Face or Replicate
• ✕Not a proprietary model developer — relies on open source models
• ✕Enterprise dedicated capacity required for guaranteed SLA performance