Sonar Pro

Premium Perplexity search family for larger contexts and more expensive web-grounded workloads.

Capabilities

Modalities: textimage→text
Capabilities: webSearchimageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths: Deeper search, Larger context
Tradeoffs: Much higher price and request fee

Official Links

Intro

Docs

Pricing

Release note

Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
Sonar Pro	sonar-pro	Active	Jan 21, 2025	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
Perplexity API	first-party	200.0K	Request fees apply in addition to token pricing.	Search-native answers; Pro search

Migration Guidance

Higher-end Sonar tier when default Sonar does not provide enough search depth.

Replacement models: sonar

Change Events

Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Jan 21, 2025	family_added	Sonar Pro published	Initial public model family launch.	Sonar Pro release notes