PerplexityReasoningReleased 7 March 2025
Sonar Pro pricing, context and benchmark
Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing.
200K
Input context
8K
Output context
$3
Official input
$15
Official output
n/a
AA index
01 · Model Overview
Everything that matters, in one table
Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.
| Model | Sonar Pro |
| Model ID | perplexity/sonar-pro |
| Provider | Perplexity |
| Release date | 7 March 2025 |
| Status | Generally available |
| Input context | 200,000 tokens |
| Output context | 8,000 tokens |
| Official input pricing | $3 per 1M tokens |
| Official output pricing | $15 per 1M tokens |
| Cache read pricing | Not published |
| Market input pricing | $3 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Market output pricing | $15 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Input modalities | text · image |
| Output modalities | text |
| Reasoning control | Not exposed |
| Tool support | Text generation only |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Provider routes | 1 endpoint |
| Artificial Analysis index | Not published |
| Speed | Not published |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not publicly stated |
Input and output support
| Modality | Input | Output | Billed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | $3 in |
| Image | ✓ yes | no | $3 in |
| Audio | no | no | not supported |
| Video | no | no | not supported |
| File (PDF) | no | no | not supported |
02 · Overview
What is Sonar Pro?
Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing.
See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro) For enterprises seeking more advanced capabilities, the Sonar Pro API can handle in-depth, multi-step queries...
Sonar Pro carries a 200K token window, uses the Other tokenizer and is served by Perplexity. On Hoodgen it sits in the Reasoning tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.
03 · Release
Release and what changed from the previous version
Released7 March 2025
| Property | Sonar Deep Research | Sonar Pro | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025 | 2025 | Same release window |
| Context | 128K | 200K | Changed |
| Max output | 115K | 8K | Changed |
| Input price | $2 | $3 | Higher |
| Output price | $8 | $15 | Higher |
| Input modalities | text | text, image | Unchanged |
| AA index | n/a | n/a | Newer benchmark run |
04 · Capabilities
Features and capabilities
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Vision
Screenshots, charts and photographed documents are read at the text token rate.
07 · Use cases
What can you do with Sonar Pro?
Debugging and root cause
Multi file failures where the model has to hold a causal chain before answering.
Architecture and planning
Design docs, migration plans and trade off analysis over long context.
Data analysis
Spreadsheets and logs read in one pass, then summarised with the numbers quoted back.
Agentic coding
Repo wide changes that need plan, edit and verify loops.
09 · Pricing
Sonar Pro pricing
Official pricing
List price
$3 / 1M in
$15 / 1M out
- 200K context
- text, image input
Cheapest route
$3 / 1M in
$15 / 1M out
- 1 route on OpenRouter
- What Hoodgen routes to first
- Same model, lower bill
Market pricing, every route
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | standard | $3 | $15 | n/a | 100.0% |
API pricing and cost calculator
| Rate | Per call | Total | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $0.0825 | $41.25 | 39188 |
| List price | $0.0825 | $41.25 | 39188 |
10 · Developers
API and developer information
| Model ID | perplexity/sonar-pro |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| Parameters | frequency_penalty · max_tokens · presence_penalty · temperature · top_k · top_p · web_search_options |
| Streaming | Yes, server sent events |
| Modality string | text+image->text |
| Max prompt tokens | 200,000 |
| Max completion tokens | 8,000 |
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "perplexity/sonar-pro",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
"max_tokens": 1024
}'11 · Limitations
Model limitations
| Text only output | It cannot generate images, audio or video. Pair it with an image model on Hoodgen when you need visuals. |
| Output cap | 8,000 tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked. |
| Benchmarks not published | Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here. |
| Knowledge cutoff | The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search. |
12 · Comparison
Sonar Pro vs other Perplexity models
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | AA index | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Pro | 200K | $3 | $15 | n/a | 2025 |
| Sonar Deep Research | 128K | $2 | $8 | n/a | 2025 |
| Sonar | 127K | $1 | $1 | n/a | 2025 |
13 · Privacy
Privacy and data policy
- On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
- Requests route through OpenRouter to Perplexity and are covered by that provider's API terms.
- Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.
14 · FAQ
Sonar Pro questions, answered
Sonar Pro is a reasoning model from Perplexity, released 7 March 2025. Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing.
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