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Sonar Pro Search

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Sonar Pro Search is a retrieval-tuned model designed for grounded answers over a corpus or live web search rather than pure generation. Available via Perplexity. 200K-token context. Premium pricing.

Sonar Pro Search is a multimodal AI model from Perplexity. It costs $3.000 per million input tokens and $15.000 per million output tokens (blended $6.600/M), with a 200K-token context window.

Modalities text, visionProvider pricing ↗API docs ↗Pricing source ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$3.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$15.000/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$6.600/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
200K
200,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • Grounded answers with citations
  • Live web or doc retrieval
  • Lower hallucination on factual queries
  • Multimodal: handles images alongside text
Typical use cases
  • Knowledge-base chat
  • Citation-required answers
  • Live news/research assistants
Benchmarks
No published benchmark scores tracked for this model yet. Frontier and reasoning models from major providers have scores; smaller models and inference-host variants typically inherit the underlying open-weights score.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does Sonar Pro Search cost?

Sonar Pro Search costs $3.000 per million input tokens and $15.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $6.600 per million tokens.

What is Sonar Pro Search's context window?

Sonar Pro Search supports up to 200K tokens of context (200,000 tokens).

What is Sonar Pro Search best for?

Sonar Pro Search is well suited to Grounded answers with citations, Live web or doc retrieval and Lower hallucination on factual queries.

Who makes Sonar Pro Search?

Sonar Pro Search is developed and served by Perplexity.