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Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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S Sonar Reasoning Pro |  Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Perplexity AI |  Anthropic |
| OpenTools Score | 67 7.5 | |
| Family | Sonar | Claude |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 128K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $2.00/M tokens | $3.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $8.00/M tokens | $15.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cache read: $0.3000/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncodeextended-thinking | textvisioncodetool-use |
| Max Output | — | 128K tokens |
| API Identifier | perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU | 83 | 88 |
| HumanEval | — | 93.7 |
| MATH | — | 79.5 |
| GPQA | — | 68.9 |
| View Sonar Reasoning Pro | View Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Reasoning ProCheapest | $2.00 | $4.00 | $6.00 | — |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +75% |
Perplexity AI
Sonar Reasoning Pro
Sonar Reasoning Pro is a multimodal llm from Perplexity AI. Supports up to 128,000 token context window. Achieves 83.0% on MMLU. Available from $2.00/M input tokens.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal llm from Anthropic. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Achieves 88.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.
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