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Sonar Pro vs Grok 4

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Sonar Pro wins:

  • No clear advantages in compared metrics

Grok 4 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Has reasoning mode
Price Advantage
Sonar Pro
Benchmark Advantage
Grok 4
Context Window
Grok 4
Speed
Grok 4

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureSonar ProGrok 4
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertySonar ProGrok 4
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorPerplexityXai
ReleasedMar 2025Jul 2025

Sonar Pro Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Grok 4 Modalities

Input
imagetext
Output
text

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.
Sonar Pro has a 200,000 token context window, while Grok 4 has a 256,000 token context window.
Sonar Pro supports vision. Grok 4 supports vision.