Perplexity Sonar vs Qwen3 Coder Flash
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen3 Coder Flash is 2.6× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen3 Coder Flash accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 127K tokens.
- Qwen3 Coder Flash is the newer model (released 2025-09-17).
| Sonar | Qwen3 Coder Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Perplexity | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-01-27 | 2025-09-17 |
| Input / 1M | $1.00 | $0.195 |
| Output / 1M | $1.00 | $0.975 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.039 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $1.00 | $0.39 |
| Context | 127K | 1M |
| Max output | 114K | 66K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $1.00 | $0.975 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
Sonar
$75.00 per month$2.50 per day
Qwen3 Coder Flash
$26.32 per month$0.88 per day
Qwen3 Coder Flash saves $48.68 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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