Sonar Reasoning Pro

Reasoning-focused Sonar family for search-grounded multi-step tasks.

Capabilities

Modalities: text→text
Capabilities: reasoningwebSearchbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths: Grounded reasoning, Search-native
Tradeoffs: Request fees still apply

Official Links

Intro

Docs

Pricing

Release note

Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
Sonar Reasoning Pro	sonar-reasoning-pro	Active	Mar 1, 2025	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
Perplexity API	first-party	128.0K	Request fees apply in addition to token pricing.	Reasoning + search

Migration Guidance

Best Perplexity tier for search-grounded reasoning problems.

Replacement models: sonar-pro

Change Events

Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Mar 1, 2025	family_added	Sonar Reasoning Pro published	Initial public model family launch.	Sonar Reasoning Pro release notes