Sonar Reasoning
Reasoning
Cheaper reasoning Sonar. Web-grounded chain-of-thought at lower latency than Sonar Reasoning Pro.
Sonar Reasoning is a reasoning AI model from Perplexity. It costs $1.000 per million input tokens and $5.000 per million output tokens (blended $2.200/M), with a 127,000-token context window.
INPUT
$1.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$5.000/M
per million output tokens
CONTEXT
127,000
tokens
What it is good at
- Web-grounded reasoning
- Cheaper than Pro
- Visible thinking
Typical use cases
- Cost-sensitive research
- Fact-grounded reasoning at scale
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
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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How much does Sonar Reasoning cost?
Sonar Reasoning costs $1.000 per million input tokens and $5.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $2.200 per million tokens.
What is Sonar Reasoning's context window?
Sonar Reasoning supports up to 127,000 tokens of context in a single request.
What is Sonar Reasoning best for?
Sonar Reasoning is well suited to Web-grounded reasoning, Cheaper than Pro and Visible thinking.
Who makes Sonar Reasoning?
Sonar Reasoning is developed and served by Perplexity.