Perplexity
·Released on Mar 7, 2025

Sonar Pro API Benchmarks, Pricing & Provider Data

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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 enterpris...

Category Performance

Observed-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.

Coverage
3 / 8
Methodology
V3.0
Category PerformanceObserved-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.Agents-Coding37.8Reasoning45.9Knowledge-Math47.5Multilingual-Multimodal-Instruction following-
#1Math47.5Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 35.759.4
foundational math45.1
math_500 · math_500
competition math49.9
aime · aime
proof frontierPrior only
applied tool mathPrior only
#2Reasoning45.9Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 34.857.0
abstract logicPrior only
scientific causal43.8
gpqa · gpqa / hle · hle
multistep constraints48
mmlu_pro · mmlu_pro
evidence verificationPrior only
#3Coding37.8Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 23.951.7
code generation37.8
livecodebench · livecodebench / scicode · scicode
repository engineeringPrior only
debugging testingPrior only
tooling qualityPrior only
No data:AgentsKnowledgeMultilingualMultimodalInstruction following

Specifications

Input and output token limits for this model, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

INPUT
200Ktokens
240 pages of text
OUTPUT
8Ktokens
8K128K1M4M
200K

Features

Technical Details

Input
Output
Released
Mar 2025
Documentation
Tokenizer
Other
Architecture
text+image->text
Moderated
No
Supported parameters
frequency_penaltymax_tokenspresence_penaltytemperaturetop_ktop_pweb_search_options

Rankings

Excels at

Detailed scores

Updated: Aug 25, 2026

Agents

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Planning & decompositionPrior only
Tool usePrior only
Environment & long-horizon executionPrior only
Recovery & completion reliabilityPrior only

Coding

V3.0

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Score37.880% interval23.9–51.71/4 Measured dimensionsLiveCodeBench27.5%#94 / 115SciCode22.6%#188 / 204
Dimensions and evidence
Code generation37.8
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livecodebench · livecodebench · z -0.59 · q 1.00
scicode · scicode · z -1.65 · q 1.00
Repository engineeringPrior only
Debugging & testingPrior only
Tool-assisted development & qualityPrior only
LiveCodeBenchV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#94
Score27.5%
UpdatedAug 25, 2026
Confidence4
SciCodeV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#188
Score22.6%
UpdatedAug 25, 2026
Confidence4

Reasoning

V3.0

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Score45.980% interval34.8–57.02/4 Measured dimensionsMMLU-Pro75.5%#84 / 129GPQA57.8%#170 / 211
Dimensions and evidence
Abstract logicPrior only
Scientific & causal reasoning43.8
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gpqa · gpqa · z -0.85 · q 1.00
hle · hle · z -0.54 · q 1.00
Multi-step constraints48
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mmlu_pro · mmlu_pro · z -0.47 · q 1.00
Evidence integration & verificationPrior only
MMLU-ProV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#84
Score75.5%
UpdatedAug 25, 2026
Confidence4
GPQAV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#170
Score57.8%
UpdatedAug 25, 2026
Confidence4
HLEV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#140
Score6.6%
UpdatedAug 25, 2026
Confidence4

Knowledge

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Broad knowledgePrior only
Professional knowledgePrior only
FactualityPrior only
Retrieval & open-book usePrior only

Math

V3.0

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Score47.580% interval35.7–59.42/4 Measured dimensionsAIME29.0%#41 / 68MATH-50074.5%#56 / 73
Dimensions and evidence
Foundational math45.1
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math_500 · math_500 · z -0.62 · q 1.00
Competition math49.9
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aime · aime · z -0.03 · q 1.00
Advanced proofsPrior only
Applied & tool-assisted mathPrior only
AIMEV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#41
Score29.0%
UpdatedAug 25, 2026
Confidence4
MATH-500V3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#56
Score74.5%
UpdatedAug 25, 2026
Confidence4

Multilingual

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Cross-language understandingPrior only
Multilingual generationPrior only
Reasoning transferPrior only
Low-resource robustnessPrior only

Multimodal

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Perception & OCRPrior only
Document & spatial understandingPrior only
Visual reasoningPrior only
Video & grounded actionPrior only

Instruction following

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Constraint followingPrior only
Structured outputPrior only
Novel-instruction generalizationPrior only
Multi-turn & long instructionsPrior only

OpenRouter endpoints

1 endpoints

Third-party OpenRouter endpoint data, shown separately from LMSpeed measurements. Some 30-minute live performance fields only appear after syncing with an OpenRouter API key.

Provider endpointInputOutput1d uptime30m latency30m throughputContext / output
Perplexity
perplexity
$3/M$15/M100.0%undefined tokens / undefined tokens

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