Sonar Pro Search
Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis.
Specifications
| Lab | Perplexity |
|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens |
| Input price | $3.00/1M |
| Output price | $15.00/1M |
| Release | Oct 2025 |
Strengths
- Real-time web search integration
- Grounded answers with citations
- 200K context window
- Strong factuality from live sources
Weaknesses
- Expensive at $3/$15 per 1M tokens
- Dependent on search result quality
- Narrower creative reasoning
Best for
- Research requiring current information
- Fact-checking and verification
- News and trend analysis
In Depth: Sonar Pro Search
Summary
Sonar Pro Search is an AI model from Perplexity.
Released in Oct 2025. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank. It takes text and image input and produces text output, with a context window of 200K tokens. Input pricing is $3.00 per 1M tokens and output is $15.00 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.