LLM Comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Sonar Pro Search

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated October 2026

Price vs Intelligence

7056432915$6.30$9.60$12.90$16.20$19.50Avg Price per M tokensIntelligenceClaude Opus 4.659.8 / $15.00Sonar Pro Search25.4 / $9.00

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2/6 models
Same tier:
 AnthropicClaude Opus 4.6Perplexity AISonar Pro Search
OrganizationAnthropicAnthropicPerplexity AIPerplexity AI
OpenTools Score
60
4.0
25
2.8
FamilyClaudeSonar
StatusCurrentCurrent
Release DateFeb 2026Oct 2025
Context Window1.0M tokens200K tokens
Input Price$5.00/M tokens$3.00/M tokens
Output Price$25.00/M tokens$15.00/M tokens
Pricing NotesCache read: $0.5000/M tokens—
Capabilities
textvisioncodetool-use
textvisioncode
Max Output128K tokens8K tokens
API Identifieranthropic/claude-opus-4.6perplexity/sonar-pro-search
Benchmarks
MMLU
89.8anthropic
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GPQA Diamond
91.3anthropic
47.1perplexity
SWE-bench Verified
80.8anthropic
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SWE-bench Pro
53.4anthropic
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Terminal-Bench 2.0
65.4anthropic
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MATH 500
80.7anthropic
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LiveCodeBench
55.9anthropic
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Berkeley Function Calling
91.9anthropic
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HLE
48anthropic
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MCP-Atlas
75.8anthropic
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BrowseComp
83.7anthropic
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OSWorld-Verified
72.7anthropic
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DocVQA
91.3anthropic
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GPQA-AA Elo
1619artificial-analysis
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MMLU Pro—
68.9perplexity
MATH-500—
81.7perplexity
AIME—
48.7perplexity
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ModelInputOutputTotal / movs Best
Sonar Pro SearchCheapest$3.00$7.50$10.50—
Claude Opus 4.6$5.00$12.50$17.50+67%

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