Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search

● Excellent

by Perplexity Intelligent Agentic Rank #39 of 75

8.4
/ 10

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. Pricing is based...

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Specifications

Specifications for Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
AttributeValue
Lab Perplexity
Tags Intelligent Agentic
Overall Score 8.4/10
Release Date 2025-10
Context Window 200,000 tokens
Input Price / 1M $3.00
Output Price / 1M $15.00
Input Modalities Text, Image
Output Modalities Text

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

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