sonar vs sonar-reasoning-pro

Pricing, Performance & Features Comparison

sonar

Authorperplexity

Context Length128K

Reasoning

Providers1

ReleasedFeb 2025

Knowledge CutoffApr 2024

License-

A lightweight, cost-effective search model optimized for quick, grounded answers with real-time web search.

Input$1

Output$1

Latency (p50)2.1s

Output Limit-

Function Calling

JSON Mode

Input-

Output-

perplexity

in$1out$1--

Latency (24h)

Success Rate (24h)

sonar-reasoning-pro

Authorperplexity

Context Length128K

Reasoning

Providers1

ReleasedFeb 2025

Knowledge Cutoff-

License-

A high-performance reasoning model leveraging advanced multi-step Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning and enhanced information retrieval for complex problem-solving.

Input$2

Output$8

Latency (p50)8.3s