Web-grounded Sonar for multi-step research questions that need cited 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...
Context
128K
128,000 tokens
Max output
4K
4,096 tokens
Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$8.00
per 1M tokens
Providers
6
6 listings
Intelligence
11.8
Intelligence Index
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens · listed by Perplexity
| Token type | Standard |
|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 |
| Output | $8.00 |
Lowest input price across providers: $2.00.
Capabilities
Effort: minimal, low, medium, high
Field: reasoning_content
Input
Output
Benchmarks
Published scores and Design Arena Elo
- Intelligence11.8#144 of 208
- CodingNot scored—
- AgenticNot scored—
- ArenaNot scored—
Rankings
Position on each OneAtlas leaderboard
Providers · 6
6 listings
| Provider | Model ID | Context | Input limit | Output | Input $ | Output $ | Reasoning $ | Cache read | Cache write | Audio in | Audio out | Reasoning | Tools | Structured | Temp. | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 AnyAPI | perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro | 128K | — | 4K | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Sep 1, 2025 |
 Eden AI | perplexityai/sonar-reasoning-pro | 128K | — | 4K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | — | — | — | Yes | No | No | Yes | Sep 1, 2025 |
 Helicone | sonar-reasoning-pro | 127K | — | 4K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | — | — | — | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Sep 1, 2025 |
 Kilo Gateway | perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro | 128K | — | 115K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | — | — | — | Yes | No | No | Yes | Mar 7, 2025 |
 Opper | sonar-reasoning-pro | 128K | — | 4K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | — | — | — | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Sep 1, 2025 |
| Perplexity | sonar-reasoning-pro | 128K | — | 4K | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | — | — | — | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Sep 1, 2025 |