This model is deprecated. We only continue performance benchmarking for the default 10k input token workload. Results for other workloads are historical and no longer updated.

Perplexity has launched a newer release, Sonar Reasoning Pro. We suggest considering it instead.

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Released January 2025

Sonar Pro Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

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Sonar Pro is above average in intelligence when comparing to other non-reasoning models. The model supports text input, outputs text, and has a 200k tokens context window.

Sonar Pro scores 8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it above average among comparable models (median: 7).

Reasoning	No This page shows the non-reasoning version of this model. A reasoning variant may also exist.
Input modality	Supports: text
Output modality	Supports: text
Context window	200k ~300 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font

Metrics are compared against models of the same class:

Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:

Tiny: ≤4B parameters
Small: 4B–40B parameters
Medium: 40B–150B parameters
Large: >150B parameters

Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:

<$0.15 per 1M tokens
$0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
>$1 per 1M tokens

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

No publicly available API

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

No publicly available API

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Indicates whether the model weights are available. Models are labelled as 'Commercial Use Restricted' if commercial use is limited by conditions, and as 'Non-commercial' if the license prohibits commercial use.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Benchmarks

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better

No publicly available API

AA-Briefcase v1.1Updated

Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

Knowledge

AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate

1 - hallucination rate

AutomationBench-AA

Agentic SaaS workflows

GDPval-AA v2.1Updated

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Humanity's Last Exam

Reasoning & knowledge

GDP.pdf

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Terminal-Bench 4.0

Agentic coding & terminal use

AA-LCR v1.1

Long context reasoning

SciCodeUnder review

Coding

CritPtUnder review

Physics reasoning

Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1New

Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal

FrontierCode 1.1New

Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories

AA-AnalystAgent

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Harvey LAB-AA v1.1Updated

Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate

EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA

Agentic business operations

ITBench-AA

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

MLCR-AA

Medical long context reasoning

MMMU-Pro

Visual reasoning

While model intelligence generally translates across use cases, specific evaluations may be more relevant for certain use cases.

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

The cost to run the evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, calculated using the model's input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices and the number of tokens used across evaluations (excluding repeats).

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens)

Price per token for cached prompts (previously processed), typically offering a significant discount compared to regular input price, represented as USD per million tokens. The values shown here are the cache hit price; cache write and cache storage are billed separately and vary by provider — see "Cache pricing by provider" for detail.

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Larger context windows are relevant to RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM workflows which typically involve reasoning and information retrieval of large amounts of data.

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Sonar Pro

Sonar Pro was released on January 21, 2025.

Sonar Pro was created by Perplexity.

Sonar Pro scores 8 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it above average among other non-reasoning models (median: 7).

No, Sonar Pro is not a reasoning model. It provides direct responses without extended chain-of-thought reasoning.

Sonar Pro supports text input.

Sonar Pro supports text output.

No, Sonar Pro does not support image input. It can only process text.

No, Sonar Pro is not multimodal. It only supports text input.

Sonar Pro has a context window of 200k tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

No, Sonar Pro is proprietary. The model weights are not publicly available.

Sonar Pro is a proprietary model and Perplexity has not disclosed the model size or parameter count.

Sonar Pro achieves a score of 8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This composite benchmark evaluates models across reasoning, knowledge, mathematics, and coding.

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Sonar Pro Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Model summary

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

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Frequently Asked Questions

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