Sonar Pro — reviews, specs & pricing

Perplexity's search-augmented answer engine model.

Summary

Sonar Pro is a real-time web-search-grounded model built on top of open-weight LLMs, providing cited answers with a 200k context window. It's optimized for complex, multi-step search queries. It's available via Perplexity's API.

Sample use case

Used for building search-augmented chat products, research assistants, and applications needing up-to-date cited information. Suited for real-time Q&A over the web.

Specifications

  • Provider: perplexity
  • License: closed
  • Context: 200k tokens
  • Input price: $3/M tok
  • Output price: $15/M tok
  • Released: 2025-01-21

Pros

  • Built-in web search grounding
  • Citations included
  • Large context window

Cons

  • Closed pipeline (search+model)
  • Cost includes per-request search fee
  • Answer quality depends on search results

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Frequently asked questions

What is Sonar Pro?

Sonar Pro is a real-time web-search-grounded model built on top of open-weight LLMs, providing cited answers with a 200k context window. It's optimized for complex, multi-step search queries. It's available via Perplexity's API.

How much does Sonar Pro cost?

Sonar Pro costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.

Is Sonar Pro open source?

Sonar Pro is released under the closed license.