LLM Reference

Sonar Reasoning

Released
2025-01-29
Last refreshed
2026-05-15
Status
Researched 20d ago
DeprecatedClassificationJSON / Tool use

Sonar Reasoning is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Sonar Reasoning Pro before starting new work.

Use it for

  • Teams maintaining an existing integration
  • Workloads that can use a 127k context window

Do not use it for

  • New production launches
  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
Family
Sonar
Released
2025-01-29
Context
127k
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Developing AI for complex problem-solving.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2022
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

This model is deprecated. Perplexity Labs recommends switching to Sonar Reasoning Pro.

About

Perplexity reasoning model, deprecated and removed from the Perplexity API in December 2025. Successor: sonar-reasoning-pro.

Sonar Reasoning is a model in the Sonar family. The structured metadata tracks a 127k-token context window and structured outputs. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Sonar Reasoning yet.

Top use-case fit

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

JSON / Tool use

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

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

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.