Sonar Pro

Pricing — 1 offering(s)

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Capability profile

Operator guidance

Use Sonar Pro over Sonar when you need more search results per query, the 200K context window, or better handling of complex and follow-up queries, and you can absorb the ~3-5x higher effective cost. Use Sonar Reasoning Pro instead when the value is in explicit chain-of-thought analysis rather than retrieval breadth. Use Sonar Deep Research for exhaustive, hundreds-of-sources reports where a multi-minute latency is acceptable.

Use cases

• Cited web answers to more sophisticated or multi-part questions where base Sonar's single-pass retrieval is too shallow
• Research-style questions that still need an interactive-latency answer (not a multi-minute Deep Research report)
• Workloads needing up to 200K tokens of context alongside live search grounding
• Follow-up / conversational search where earlier turns inform later retrieval

Limitations

• Search-grounded only, with a mandatory per-request search-context fee ($6-$14 / 1K requests) on top of token cost
• Perplexity's own guidance still flags the search models (Sonar and Sonar Pro) as not ideal for exhaustive research or detailed-instruction tasks — those route to the reasoning/research variants
• Max output tokens (~8K) and the underlying base model are not published on Perplexity's own docs; the 8K figure is from OpenRouter
• Legacy Sonar Chat Completions surface migrating to the Agent API (support until 2026-09-27, Perplexity changelog)
• Capability ratings are qualitative from Perplexity's positioning; no independent published benchmark for the API model

Citations

• Perplexity API — Models overview
• Perplexity API — Sonar models
• Perplexity API — Pricing
• Sonar Pro on OpenRouter (secondary — 200K context, ~8K max output)
• Meet New Sonar (Perplexity blog, Feb 2025) — Sonar-family Llama 3.3 70B basis