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Overview

Sonar Reasoning. Pricing starts at $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 127K tokens. API access is available through Perplexity.

Context Window
127K
tokens
Pricing
Input$1.00
Output$5.00
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
VisionReasoningTools

Pricing Comparison

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

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Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$1.000
$5.000
62.3
127,000
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* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
17.9 (44th pct)
Coding
-
Math
-
MMLU Pro
-
GPQA
62.3 (52th pct)
LiveCodeBench
-
AIME
77.0 (84th pct)
Aider
-
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Frequently Asked Questions

Sonar Reasoning costs $0.001000 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.005000 per 1,000 output tokens.

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