LLM Reference

Sonar Pro

Released
2025-01-27
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 100d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

Sonar Pro is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
  • Workloads that can use a 200k context window
  • Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
Family
Sonar
Released
2025-01-27
Context
200k
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Developing AI for complex problem-solving.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2022
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$15.00
Input / 1M
$3.00

Cheapest of 3 routes · OpenRouter

About

Advanced Perplexity search model with 200K context window. Provides double the citations of Sonar. Supports Pro Search mode (sonar-pro-search). Request fees: $6-$14/1K requests (Low/Medium/High).

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 3

Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$3.00$15.00
Serverless
Perplexity Labs$3.00$15.00
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway--
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.