Perplexity: Sonar Pro
Perplexity Sonar Pro offers web-connected search capabilities with vision support and a large 200K context window, making it useful for research-oriented tasks, though its raw reasoning benchmarks are modest relative to its premium pricing.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
Our methodology takes into account a range of factors including pricing, functionality, capabilities, benchmark performance, and real-world applicability. Rankings are reviewed and updated regularly as new models are released. Issues with our rankings? Contact us
Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. Plus, with a larger context window, it can handle longer and more nuanced searches and follow-up questions.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.00 | $0.003000 |
| Output | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
