moonshotai
Sonar Pro Search vs Kimi K3
79.2 overall · $6.00 / 1M
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Sonar Pro Search
perplexity/sonar-pro-search
reasoningimage input
Sonar Pro Search costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens with a 200K-token context window.
A reasoning model from perplexity, released Oct 30, 2025. LiveBench hasn't published a run for it, so this page carries measured price and specs only — no benchmark numbers.
- Input / 1M
- $3.00
- Output / 1M
- $15.00
- Context
- 200K
- LiveBench overall
- Not evaluated
Specs and pricing
| Input price USD per 1M prompt tokens | $3.00 |
|---|---|
| Output price USD per 1M completion tokens, reasoning included | $15.00 |
| Blended price 3:1 input:output — #28 most expensive of 343 listed models | $6.00 |
| Cached input read Blank means not priced separately — not free | — |
| Cache write | — |
| Context window | 200,000 tokens |
| Max output | 8,000 tokens |
| Input modalities | text, image |
| Tool calling | No |
| Extended reasoning | Yes |
| Knowledge cutoff | — |
| Listed | Oct 30, 2025 |
What Sonar Pro Search costs to run
Monthly list cost across five workload shapes, using the published cached-input rate where there is one. A floor, not a quote — batch discounts and cache writes aren't included.
| Workload | Per month |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot 1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests | $1,920/mo |
| RAG assistant 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests | $3,300/mo |
| Coding agent 40K in / 4K out × 20K requests | $3,600/mo |
| Document extraction 20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests | $4,125/mo |
| Bulk classification 500 in / 20 out × 5M requests | $9,000/mo |
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Sonar Pro Search FAQ
How much does Sonar Pro Search cost?
Sonar Pro Search lists at $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens. A RAG assistant handling 100K requests a month (8K tokens in, 600 out) comes to about $3,300 at list price.
What is the context window of Sonar Pro Search?
Sonar Pro Search accepts up to 200,000 tokens of context and can return up to 8,000 output tokens per response.
Does Sonar Pro Search support tool calling?
Sonar Pro Search does not list tool (function) calling support and exposes extended reasoning. It accepts text, image input.
How does Sonar Pro Search score on benchmarks?
LiveBench has not published a run for Sonar Pro Search yet. Until it does, compare it on price and specs, or run your own evaluation on your own tasks.
What is the API model ID for Sonar Pro Search?
On OpenRouter the model ID is "perplexity/sonar-pro-search". It was listed on Oct 30, 2025.
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How these numbers are produced
- Price and specs — provider list data from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
- Scores and ranks — LiveBench release 2026-06-25. Ranks count only models that have a published run; a blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
- Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
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