Sonar Pro Search
Perplexity · released Oct 30, 2025
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $3.00
- Output
- $15.00
- Cached
- Not published
List price · per 1M tokens · Perplexity at 200K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Sonar Pro Search is Perplexity's proprietary search-augmented reasoning model that grounds answers in live search across a 200,000-token request limit. It is offered at a premium tier through two channels with identical rates, though no benchmark scores are available to verify its quality.
Pick this for long-document analysis where live search citation is built in, or when you are already integrated into Perplexity's platform. Use it if search-grounded output is worth a premium output rate and you do not need independent quality verification. Skip it if you need measured benchmark scores, if you want to self-host, or if you need verified throughput on your chosen provider.
The case for it
- 200,000-token request limit among the largest we hold for search-augmented models.
- Native search grounding from a vendor whose platform is built on live search augmentation.
- Identical pricing across both tracked providers, so provider choice does not affect cost.
The case against it
- Premium output rate with no benchmark scores in our data, so quality is unverified.
- Throughput measured only on Perplexity; unmeasured on OpenRouter.
- Parameter count and licence terms undisclosed.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Sonar Pro Search — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes Perplexity's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $3.00 in / $15.00 out
- Context served
- 200K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $3.00 / $15.00 | 200K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Perplexity | $3.00 / $15.00 | 200K | 82 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 1 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Perplexity | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. JSON output: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image->text
- Catalogue slug
- perplexity-sonar-pro-search