Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro
Analysis Summary
Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro is the reasoning-enhanced tier of Perplexity's Sonar family, with an intelligence index of 17.9 and a GPQA score of 0.623. Vision support is included, and the 128K context window handles most business document lengths. It is designed to combine web-grounded retrieval with reasoning, though full benchmark coverage is limited.
For businesses, it suits research and analysis tasks where up-to-date information retrieval is combined with some reasoning over retrieved content. Vision support adds utility for image-aware queries. It lacks tool use and function calling, which limits its agentic applicability, and its coding capability is not documented.
At $2.00 input and $8.00 output per million tokens, it is moderately priced for its tier. Teams that specifically need reasoning over live web data will find it more capable than standard Sonar Pro, but for most business workflows, a general-purpose model with stronger benchmarks and tool use will deliver more consistent results.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro adds reasoning capability and vision support to Perplexity's search-grounded model family, with a 128K context window and moderate benchmark coverage.
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Performance Profile
How Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro compares
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro ranks #198 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 128K-token context window is larger than 43% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 16% of comparable models.
About Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro
Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. Designed for..
Capabilities
Architecture Detail
| Instruct Type | deepseek-r1 |
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro
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| Provider | perplexity |
| Release Date | March 7, 2025 |
| Context Length | 128,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
| Output | $8.00 | $0.008000 |
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Frequently asked questions about Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro
How much does Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro cost?
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro?
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro has a context window of 128,000 tokens (128K).
What can Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro do?
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro supports image/vision input.
Who created Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro?
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro is developed by Perplexity and was released on March 7, 2025.
