Sonar Pro
Premium Perplexity search family for larger contexts and more expensive web-grounded workloads.
Pricing
Model Overview
Tracked token-pricing fields for this model family. Empty pricing fields stay hidden until the source publishes them.
| Price field | Value |
|---|---|
| Input | $3.00 / 1M tokens |
| Output | $15.00 / 1M tokens |
| Source | Sonar Pro pricing |
| Verified | Apr 2, 2026 (High) |
Surface
Capabilities
Input and output modalities, enabled feature flags, strengths, and tradeoffs.
| Attribute | Values |
|---|---|
| Modalities | textimage totext |
| Capabilities | webSearchimageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs |
| Strengths | Deeper search, Larger context |
| Tradeoffs | Much higher price and request fee |
References
Official Links
Canonical launch, documentation, pricing, and release-note URLs.
| Reference | URL |
|---|---|
| Intro | https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models/sonar |
| Docs | https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/models |
| Pricing | https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing |
| Release note | https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog |
Coverage
Benchmark Coverage
Reported benchmark families, versions, scores, sources, and notes.
| Benchmark | Version | Score | Date | Source | Notes |
|---|
Lifecycle
Release History
Lifecycle transitions and release timeline for this model family.
| Release | Alias | Lifecycle | Release Date | Deprecation | Shutdown | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Pro | sonar-pro | Active | Jan 21, 2025 | — | — | Current published model family snapshot. |
Surfaces
Host Coverage
Provider-specific hosting, context, pricing notes, feature differences, and provider-status context.
| 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
Migration Guidance
Documented migration summary, successor families, and known breaking changes.
| Topic | Details |
|---|---|
| Summary | Higher-end Sonar tier when default Sonar does not provide enough search depth. |
| Replacement models | sonar |
Timeline
Change Events
Cataloged model-family updates and source references.
| Date | Type | Title | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2025 | family_added | Sonar Pro published | Initial public model family launch. | Sonar Pro release notes |
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