Claude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/MClaude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/M
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Sonar Pro

Frontier

Web-grounded Perplexity flagship. Returns answers with citations from a live search index.

Sonar Pro is a frontier AI model from Perplexity. It costs $3.000 per million input tokens and $15.000 per million output tokens (blended $6.600/M), with a 200K-token context window.

Modalities textOfficial model page ↗Provider pricing ↗API docs ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$3.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$15.000/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$6.600/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
200K
200,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • Live web search
  • Citations included
  • Up-to-date answers
Typical use cases
  • Research assistants
  • News & current events
  • Fact-grounded chat
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
MMLU86%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
GPQA Diamond60%
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH80%
High-school competition math problems.
HumanEval80%
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources — treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does Sonar Pro cost?

Sonar Pro costs $3.000 per million input tokens and $15.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $6.600 per million tokens.

What is Sonar Pro's context window?

Sonar Pro supports up to 200K tokens of context (200,000 tokens).

What is Sonar Pro best for?

Sonar Pro is well suited to Live web search, Citations included and Up-to-date answers.

Who makes Sonar Pro?

Sonar Pro is developed and served by Perplexity.