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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Sonar Pro

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude 3.5 Sonnet wins:

  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding

Sonar Pro wins:

  • Faster response time
Price Advantage
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Benchmark Advantage
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Context Window
Sonar Pro
Speed
Sonar Pro

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricClaude 3.5 SonnetSonar ProWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$3.00$3.00Tie
Output (per 1M tokens)$15.00$15.00Tie
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.60N/A Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Cache Write (per 1M)$7.50N/A Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Both models have similar overall pricing.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Providers

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Sonar Pro Providers

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Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet Wins
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Sonar Pro Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetSonar ProWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
15.915.2
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
30.2--
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
77.275.5
GPQA
Graduate-level science
59.957.8
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
38.127.5
Aider
Real-world code editing
84.2--
AIME
Competition math
15.729.0
Claude 3.5 Sonnet significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
200,000
tokens
Sonar Pro
200,000
tokens

Speed Performance

MetricClaude 3.5 SonnetSonar ProWinner
Tokens/second0.0 tok/s132.0 tok/s
Time to First Token0.00s1.27s
Sonar Pro responds Infinity% faster on average.

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude 3.5 SonnetSonar Pro
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude 3.5 SonnetSonar Pro
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicPerplexity
ReleasedOct 2024Mar 2025

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Modalities

Input
textimagefile
Output
text

Sonar Pro Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has cheaper input pricing at $3.00/M tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has cheaper output pricing at $15.00/M tokens.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 30.2, compared to Sonar Pro's score of N/A.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet has a 200,000 token context window, while Sonar Pro has a 200,000 token context window.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports vision. Sonar Pro supports vision.