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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 Small Online is retained as a legacy Perplexity online-search route for older integrations and catalog migrations.
sonar-small-online is a Text model from Perplexity (US). HotON.ai tracks it at $0.00 per 1M input tokens and $0.28 per 1M output tokens, with a 32K-token context window. Its composite efficiency score is 89/100 at an estimated $0.000 per successful task.
sonar-small-online is tracked at $0.00 per 1M input tokens and $0.28 per 1M output tokens. A typical 3:1 output-to-input workload blends to roughly $0.21 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-small-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-small-online is cheaper than 100% of models on input price and ranks #139 of 535 by overall efficiency.
Yes — qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 is a lower-cost option at $0.10 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-small-online (Perplexity): $0.00/1M input, $0.28/1M output. https://hoton.ai/en/models/perplexity-sonar-small-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.