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Sonar Pro
perplexity·perplexity/sonar-pro-2·GA·Closed·sonar-pro series
Deeper Sonar search model with broader retrieval and stronger synthesis
At a glance
Official price$3.00 / $15.00 per 1M
Cache read — · Perplexity
Lowest paid$3.00 / $15.00
OpenRouter Gateway · 1× spread
Context200,000
Output limit8,192
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-09-01
Released / updated2024-01-01 / 2025-09-01
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence9.1
Value2
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed—
TTFT—
Value formulaIQ 9.1 ÷ min blended $6.000 = 2
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 7 providers5 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter perplexity/sonar-pro | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,000 | |
| PerplexityOfficial sonar-pro | First-party | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| SAP AI Core sonar-pro | Cloud | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| Eden AI perplexityai/sonar-pro | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) sonar-pro | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | |
| AnyAPI perplexity/sonar-pro | Gateway | — | — | — | — | 200,000 | 8,192 | hostTable.undisclosed |
| Vercel AI Gateway perplexity/sonar-pro | Cloud | — | — | — | — | 200,000 | 8,000 | hostTable.undisclosed |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1OpenRouter$1,350.00
2Perplexity · Official$1,350.00
3SAP AI Core$1,350.00
4Eden AI$1,350.00
5DevPass (LLM Gateway)$1,350.00
Switch to OpenRouter to save $0.00/mo (0%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended