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Sonar Reasoning Pro

CTX128K
Reasoning · Vision
TextImageInput$2/M
TextOutput$8/M

Web-grounded Sonar for multi-step research questions that need cited reasoning

PaidProprietary270/1044
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Sonar Reasoning Pro

Web-grounded Sonar for multi-step research questions that need cited reasoning

sonar-reasoning-pro
Type
Text
Quality
Not rated yet
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
4,096 tokens
Input price
$2.00 / 1M tokens
Output price
$8.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read
—
Cache write
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Released
Jan 1, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 2025
Takes in
Text, Image
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
No
Structured output
No
File attachments
Yes
Access
Paid
License
Proprietary
Rarity
Rare
Set number
270/1044

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Perplexity’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: docs.perplexity.ai.

How good is it?

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

No public leaderboard lists Sonar Reasoning 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

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

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Eden AICheapest paidperplexityai/sonar-reasoning-pro$2.00$8.00128K
Heliconesonar-reasoning-pro$2.00$8.00127K
Kilo Gatewayperplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro$2.00$8.00128K
OpenRouterperplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro$2.00$8.00128K
Oppersonar-reasoning-pro$2.00$8.00128K
PerplexityOfficialsonar-reasoning-pro$2.00$8.00128K
AnyAPIperplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro——128K

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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