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GPT-5.2 Pro vs Sonar Pro

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

GPT-5.2 Pro wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Has reasoning mode

Sonar Pro wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
Sonar Pro
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5.2 Pro
Context Window
GPT-5.2 Pro
Speed
GPT-5.2 Pro

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureGPT-5.2 ProSonar Pro
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyGPT-5.2 ProSonar Pro
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorOpenAIPerplexity
ReleasedDec 2025Mar 2025

GPT-5.2 Pro Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

Sonar Pro Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sonar Pro has cheaper input pricing at $3.00/M tokens. Sonar Pro has cheaper output pricing at $15.00/M tokens.
GPT-5.2 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 48.7, compared to Sonar Pro's score of N/A.
GPT-5.2 Pro has a 400,000 token context window, while Sonar Pro has a 200,000 token context window.
GPT-5.2 Pro supports vision. Sonar Pro supports vision.