PSonar ProAPI

Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing.

200KContext window · tokens

$3Input price · per M tokens

$15Output price · per M tokens

PerplexityProvider

Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.

$6 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
cheaper than 18% of the 192 commercial models tracked here
4 of 5 Perplexity models tracked here, from cheapest

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Benchmarks & performance

Independent benchmark scores for Sonar Pro, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index9.1

GPQA57.8%

MMLU-Pro75.5%

Humanity's Last Exam6.6%

LiveCodeBench27.5%

SciCode22.6%

MATH-50074.5%

AIME29%

vs. models measured heretop 86%

Scores higher than 14% of the 273 models measured by Artificial Analysis and tracked here.
Models at this level cost $0.2 per 1M tokens (median of 26) — this one costs $6.
Cheaper and better on this index: Claude Opus 5 (batch) · GPT-5.6 Sol · Grok 4.6 and 194 more

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis

About this model

Sonar Pro is a commercial AI model by Perplexity. The specifications below are tracked automatically: pricing is refreshed daily from public list prices, so the numbers on this page reflect the current cost of using the model through its API.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sonar Pro?

Sonar Pro is an AI language model from Perplexity. It is a proprietary model, available through an API. It scores 9.1 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.

Is Sonar Pro free?

Sonar Pro is not free: it costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. Open-weight alternatives can be self-hosted at no per-token cost.

What is Sonar Pro good at?

Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 57.8%, MMLU-Pro 75.5%, Humanity's Last Exam 6.6%, LiveCodeBench 27.5%, SciCode 22.6%, MATH-500 74.5%, AIME 29%.