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Sonar Reasoning Pro

sonar-reasoning-pro

Researched 6d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-15. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

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

Decision context: RAG task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-15.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
  • Workloads that can use a 128K context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads

Cheapest output

$8.00

OpenRouter per 1M tokens

Provider routes

2

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-15

Researched 6d ago

fresh

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 2
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$2.00$8.00
Serverless
Perplexity Labs$2.00$8.00
Serverless

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.

About

Perplexity's Chain-of-Thought reasoning search model. Replaced sonar-reasoning (deprecated December 2025). Request fees: $6-$14/1K requests (Low/Medium/High).

Sonar Reasoning Pro has a 128K-token context window.

Sonar Reasoning Pro input tokens at $2/1M, output at $8/1M.

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Structured Outputs

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Specifications

FamilySonar
Released2025-03-01
Context128K

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