Is Perplexity Sonar or OpenAI GPT-4o cheaper?

Perplexity Sonar is cheaper on output tokens ($1.00 vs $10.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Perplexity Sonar or OpenAI GPT-4o?

OpenAI GPT-4o has the larger context window (128K tokens).

Perplexity Sonar vs OpenAI GPT-4o

Perplexity Sonar is cheaper on output tokens, while OpenAI GPT-4o offers a larger context window. Choose Perplexity Sonar or OpenAI GPT-4o based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Perplexity Sonar	OpenAI GPT-4o
Provider	Helicone	Helicone
Input / 1M tokens	$1.00	$2.50
Output / 1M tokens	$1.00	$10.00
Context window	127K	128K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Jan 2025	May 2024

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