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Daily blended price ($/1M) — recorded each day, builds into a trend over time.
Typical 3:1 output-to-input mix, per 1M tokens
Source: litellm
General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.
Sonar Medium Online is retained as a legacy Perplexity online-search route for supplier catalog backfill.
sonar-medium-online is a Text model from Perplexity (US). HotON.ai tracks it at $0.00 per 1M input tokens and $1.80 per 1M output tokens, with a 32K-token context window. Its composite efficiency score is 88/100 at an estimated $0.001 per successful task.
sonar-medium-online is tracked at $0.00 per 1M input tokens and $1.80 per 1M output tokens. A typical 3:1 output-to-input workload blends to roughly $1.35 per 1M tokens. Figures are illustrative demo data.
General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.
sonar-medium-online supports up to a 32K-token context window — large enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
Within the HotON.ai tracked set, sonar-medium-online is cheaper than 100% of models on input price and ranks #371 of 535 by overall efficiency.
Yes — minimax-m2.1 is a lower-cost option at $0.95 per 1M output tokens, while still covering similar Text use cases. Compare them side by side on HotON.ai.
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HotON.ai — sonar-medium-online (Perplexity): $0.00/1M input, $1.80/1M output. https://hoton.ai/en/models/perplexity-sonar-medium-onlinePricing is real (via the TestKey catalog, updated daily). Quality (Arena Elo) is real where the model is ranked on LMArena. Efficiency is a modeled composite of real price and context.