Perplexity
Perplexity ranks #86 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 0 ranked models. 1 of its 6 models ship open weights. It has shipped 4 dated releases, roughly one every 7 days; the last was 18 Feb 2025, so the next would be due between 22 Feb 2025 and 27 Feb 2025 on that pattern.
Answer engine that fine-tunes Sonar models for search-grounded answers on top of open-weights bases.
- Provider rank
- #86
- by best model
- Best index
- –
- Ranked models
- 0
- 1 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
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Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
Not enough dated, ranked models to draw a timeline.
Next release
Over the last two years Perplexity shipped 4 distinct models, one every 7 days on median. The latest arrived on 18 Feb 2025.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 22 Feb 2025 and 27 Feb 2025.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Models
Every Perplexity model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R1 1776open | – | – | – | – | 128k | 2025-02-18 | 2025-02-18 · stale |
| 2 | Sonar Pro | – | $6.00 | 93 | 3.45 s | 200k | 2025-01-21 | 2025-01-21 · stale |
| 3 | Sonar Reasoning Prothinking | – | $3.50 | 19 | 24 s | 128k | 2025-01-28 | 2025-01-28 · stale |
| 4 | Ppl Sonar Prohigh | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5 | Sonar Deep Research | – | $3.50 | 37 | 66 s | 128k | 2025-02-01 | – |
| 6 | Sonar Pro Search | – | $6.00 | 46 | 11 s | 200k | – | – |