Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
Analysis Summary
Perplexity Sonar Pro Search is a search-augmented model from Perplexity, designed to ground responses in live web data. It supports vision and a 200K context window, making it useful for research-oriented and content workflows where up-to-date information matters. Its intelligence index of 15.5 and livecodebench score of 0.295 reflect limited raw reasoning capability.
For businesses, the search grounding is the primary differentiator: it suits SEO research, competitive monitoring, and content briefing tasks where freshness of information is critical. It is not suited to coding, agentic automation, or complex multi-step reasoning. The absence of tool use or function calling further limits its integration into automated pipelines.
At $3.00 input and $15.00 output, it is expensive relative to its benchmark performance. Teams with a specific need for search-grounded outputs may find value here, but general-purpose or technical workloads are better served by stronger models at lower cost.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Perplexity Sonar Pro Search combines web search grounding with vision support and a 200K context window, but its reasoning benchmarks are limited and pricing is high for the capability offered.
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Performance Profile
How Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search compares
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search ranks #166 of 380 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 200K-token context window is larger than 65% of the models we list. At $3.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 10% of comparable models.
About Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
perplexity/sonar-pro-search
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| Provider | perplexity |
| Release Date | October 30, 2025 |
| Context Length | 200,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 8,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.00 | $0.003000 |
| Output | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
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Frequently asked questions about Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
How much does Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search cost?
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search?
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search has a context window of 200,000 tokens (200K).
What can Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search do?
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search supports image/vision input.
Who created Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search?
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search is developed by Perplexity and was released on October 30, 2025.
