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Sonar Pro

CTX200K
Vision
TextImageInput$3/M
TextOutput$15/M

Deeper Sonar search model with broader retrieval and stronger synthesis

PaidProprietary269/1040
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Sonar Pro

Deeper Sonar search model with broader retrieval and stronger synthesis

sonar-pro
Type
Text
Quality
Not rated yet
Context window
200,000 tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Input price
$3.00 / 1M tokens
Output price
$15.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read
—
Cache write
—
Released
Jan 1, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 2025
Takes in
Text, Image
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
No
Structured output
No
File attachments
Yes
Access
Paid
License
Proprietary
Rarity
Rare
Set number
269/1040

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Perplexity’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: docs.perplexity.ai.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Sonar Pro, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

No public leaderboard lists Sonar Pro yet. Epoch AI and LMArena cover most chat, image, and video models from the big labs; embeddings, speech, and small open models mostly go unrated.

Where to run it

9 providers sell Sonar Pro through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Eden AICheapest paidperplexityai/sonar-pro$3.00$15.00200K
Heliconesonar-pro$3.00$15.00200K
Kilo Gatewayperplexity/sonar-pro$3.00$15.00200K
OpenRouterperplexity/sonar-pro$3.00$15.00200K
Oppersonar-pro$3.00$15.00200K
PerplexityOfficialsonar-pro$3.00$15.00200K
SAP AI Coresonar-pro$3.00$15.00200K
AI/ML APIperplexity/sonar-pro$3.90$19.50200K
AnyAPIperplexity/sonar-pro——200K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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