Sonar Pro Search

Name: Sonar Pro Search
Price: 3 USD
Author: Perplexity AI

SonarvPro SearchCurrent

Perplexity AI(ai lab)

Released October 30, 2025

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OpenTools Scorenormalized /100

3.8

Valuescore / $M

OpenTools Score

Context200K tokens

Price (In / Out)$3.00/M / $15.00/M

CategoryMultimodal LLM

Max Output8K tokens

About Sonar Pro Search

Sonar Pro Search is a multimodal llm from Perplexity AI. Supports up to 200,000 token context window. Achieves 83.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.

Capabilities

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Input Modalities

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Output Modalities

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Technical Details

API Identifier: perplexity/sonar-pro-search
Category: Multimodal LLM
Context Window: 200,000 tokens
Max Output Tokens: 8,000 tokens

Benchmarks

Performance scores for Sonar Pro Search across standard benchmarks.

GPQA Diamondperplexity · Nov 2024

47.1%

MMLU Properplexity · Nov 2024

68.9%

MATH-500perplexity · Nov 2024

81.7%

AIMEperplexity · Nov 2024

48.7%

Pricing

Token pricing for Sonar Pro Search API usage.

Input Tokens

$3.00/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$15.00/M

per million tokens

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Input tokens/month

Output tokens/month

Input cost$3.00

Output cost$7.50

Estimated monthly cost$10.50

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