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Released January 2025

Sonar Reasoning Pro: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

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

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Sonar Reasoning Pro supports text input, outputs text, and has a 127k tokens context window.

Reasoning	Yes
Input modality	Supports: text
Output modality	Supports: text
Context window	127k ~191 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

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

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Time per Task

Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

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Cost per Task

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

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode-AA 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode-AA 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

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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 Task

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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.

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

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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).

Further details

								Weights
Sonar Reasoning Pro	Perplexity	-	-	127k	-	-	-	Not available	-

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Sonar Reasoning Pro

Sonar Reasoning Pro was released on January 28, 2025.

Sonar Reasoning Pro was created by Perplexity.

Yes, Sonar Reasoning Pro is a reasoning model. It uses extended thinking or chain-of-thought reasoning to work through complex problems before providing an answer.

Sonar Reasoning Pro supports text input.

Sonar Reasoning Pro supports text output.

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

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

Sonar Reasoning Pro has a context window of 127k tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

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

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

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Sonar Reasoning Pro: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

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