Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
sonar-reasoning-pro- Released
- Not reported
- Version
- Sonar Reasoning Pro
- License
- Unknown
PerplexitySonar Reasoning Pro
Sonar Reasoning Pro combines multi-step reasoning with enhanced information retrieval.
- Context
- 128,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Not reported
Providers & Pricing
Estimate workload cost →| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 OpenrouterAvailable | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | Sep 2, 2026 | Provider-reported |
PerplexityAvailable | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | Aug 29, 2026 | Provider-reported |
Benchmarks
All benchmark results →| Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | LMArena Search Arenasearch-2026-08-24-011508720696 | 1,138.60 | — | 29,055 | ppl-sonar-reasoning-pro-high; 95% CI [1132.86119454, 1144.34164089]; votes 29055; rank 29unknown | Original sourcewinner eligible | Third-party benchmark |
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Context
- 128,000 tokens
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- Unknown
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Vision
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Capabilities
- chat, citations, reasoning, search
This page represents one immutable developer model ID. Serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach separately and never create duplicate model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasessonar-reasoning-pro
Explicit Unknowns
- Release date
- Maximum output
- Architecture
- Tokenizer
- Knowledge cutoff
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
Comparable Peers
Related Model Comparisons
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|---|---|---|---|
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs | SonarPerplexity | family variantstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs | Sonar ProPerplexity | family variantstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs | Sonar Deep ResearchPerplexity | family variantstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs |  ERNIE 5.1Baidu | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs | ERNIE X1.1Baidu | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs |  Qwen3.7-PlusQwen | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs |  GLM-5.3Z.ai | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs |  Phi-4-mini-reasoningMicrosoft | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs |  DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs | Grok 4.6xAI | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs |  Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | vs | Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Questions
Sonar Reasoning Pro FAQs
What is Sonar Reasoning Pro?+
Sonar Reasoning Pro combines multi-step reasoning with enhanced information retrieval. It is developed by Perplexity and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Sonar Reasoning Pro support?+
Sonar Reasoning Pro's current record lists Text as input and Text as output.
How much context does Sonar Reasoning Pro support?+
The current record lists a 128,000-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.
Is Sonar Reasoning Pro available through an API?+
Sonar Reasoning Pro is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Openrouter and Perplexity.
How much does Sonar Reasoning Pro cost through an API?+
The lowest directly sourced prices currently attached to Sonar Reasoning Pro are $2.00 per million input tokens through Openrouter and $8.00 per million output tokens through Openrouter. Prices are provider-specific and should be checked against each cited observation date.
What capabilities and tasks does Sonar Reasoning Pro support?+
Sonar Reasoning Pro's recorded capabilities are chat, citations, reasoning, and search. Its supported tasks are question-answering, reasoning, search, and text.
Can Sonar Reasoning Pro be self-hosted?+
Sonar Reasoning Pro is not marked as an open-weight model. Self-hosting is marked as unsupported, with no license recorded.
Does Sonar Reasoning Pro have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are sonar-reasoning-pro.
Which models can Sonar Reasoning Pro be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes Sonar, Sonar Pro, Sonar Deep Research, ERNIE 5.1, and ERNIE X1.1. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →
How current is the Model Markets record for Sonar Reasoning Pro?+
Sonar Reasoning Pro was last verified Aug 29, 2026 from Perplexity's primary source, “Sonar Reasoning Pro | Perplexity.” The evidence is classified as official fact.