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title: "Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro: $2.00/M in, $8.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro: $2.00/M in, $8.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Sonar Reasoning Pro

Perplexity · released 2025-03-07

 $3.50 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $2.00 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $8.00 /M |
| Web search | $0.005 /call |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 128K |
| --- | --- |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro) Sonar Reasoning Pro is a premier reasoning model powered by DeepSeek R1 with Chain of Thought (CoT). Designed for...