PerplexitySonar Pro
Sonar Pro is a Perplexity proprietary reasoning model, released 21 Jan 2025. It is not yet ranked: 1 independent result so far, and the index needs at least five across two categories. At $6.00 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models. Output speed of 93 tokens per second puts it faster than most, with a first token in 3.6 s. Last measured 21 Jan 2025.stale: no new result in six months
- Blended price
- $6.00/M
- $3.00 in · $15.00 out
- Output speed
- 93 tok/s
- OpenRouter traffic, 7-day median; not yet measured by Artificial Analysis
- First answer
- 3.56 s
- Context
- 200k
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 21 Jan 2025
- Composite38
Benchmark results
See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.
Reasoning
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index | 57.8%#389 | Artificial Analysis |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index | 6.5%#387 | Artificial Analysis |
Composite
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 7.6#464 | Artificial Analysis |
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | 95 tok/s | 3.41 s | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200k | – |
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0057 | – | 6.8 s |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.045 | – | 10.0 s |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.041 | – | 19.7 s |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.240 | – | 46.6 s |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0090 | – | 5.7 s |
See also
Questions people ask
- Why does Sonar Pro have no BenchLeader Index score?
- The index needs at least five independent results across at least two categories; as of 24 Oct 2026 Sonar Pro has 1 that count. Launch-post scores are never used, so it is ranked once independent publishers have measured it.
- How much does Sonar Pro cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 24 Oct 2026, Sonar Pro costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens, $6.00 blended (three input tokens per output token).
- When was Sonar Pro released?
- Perplexity released Sonar Pro on 21 Jan 2025.
Data as of 24 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Sonar Pro: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 24 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/sonar-pro.