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Sonar Reasoning Pro API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Sonar Reasoning Pro was released on March 7, 2025. Pricing starts at $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 128K tokens. API access is available through Perplexity.

Context Window
128K
tokens
Pricing
Input$2.00
Output$8.00
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
VisionReasoning

Pricing Comparison

Compare Sonar Reasoning Pro with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$2.000
$8.000
128,000
Try
$1.750
$14.000
400,000
Try
$1.750
$14.000
128,000
Try
$1.750
$14.000
66.9
81.4
71.2
400,000
Try
$2.000
$6.000
14.8
53.7
33.2
65,536
Try
$2.000
$6.000
17.8
51.5
35.1
128,000
Try
$2.000
$12.000
65,536
Try
$2.000
$12.000
91.7
89.8
90.8
1,048,576
Try
$2.000
$8.000
200,000
Try
$2.000
$8.000
18.1
57.7
39.0
256,000
Try
$2.000
$8.000
45.7
80.6
66.6
1,047,576
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Sonar Reasoning Pro is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

2
Providers
$2.000
Cheapest Input/M
$8.000
Cheapest Output/M
Perplexity
Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
Perplexity
Perplexity
Best Price
$2.000
$8.000
100.0%
V
Vercel
Best Price
$2.000
$8.000
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Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
24.6 (60th pct)
Coding
-
Math
-
MMLU Pro
-
GPQA
-
LiveCodeBench
-
AIME
79.0 (84th pct)
Aider
-
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sonar Reasoning Pro costs $0.002000 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.008000 per 1,000 output tokens.
Sonar Reasoning Pro is available from 2 provider(s). Perplexity offers the best price.
We compare Sonar Reasoning Pro with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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