Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro
PERPLEXITY Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1200Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context128,000Tokens
API Cost / 1M$10.00Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
- Reasoning
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)
Sonar Reasoning Pro is a premier reasoning model powered by DeepSeek R1 with Chain of Thought (CoT). Designed for advanced use cases, it supports in-depth, multi-step queries with a larger context window and can surface more citations per search, enabling more comprehensive and extensible responses.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$2.00 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$8.00 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
Evaluate Competitors
VS Engine MatchupPerplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Upstage: Solar Pro 3VS Engine MatchupPerplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1VS Engine MatchupPerplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Perplexity: Sonar Pro SearchVS Engine MatchupPerplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5VS Engine MatchupPerplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Nous: Hermes 4 70BVS Engine MatchupPerplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Google: Gemma 3n 2B (free)