Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro
Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro offers search-augmented reasoning with vision support, but only partial benchmark data is available, limiting confidence in its general capability. It may suit research-oriented workflows but is hard to recommend broadly at its price point given the limited evidence of performance.
Assessment date: March 14, 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. Designed for advanced use cases, it supports in-depth, multi-step queries with a larger context window and can surface more citations per search, enabling more comprehensive and extensible responses.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Instruct Type | deepseek-r1 |
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 | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
| Output | $8.00 | $0.008000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
