Models/Perplexity/Sonar Pro

Sonar Pro

Buyers search the name. This is a grounded search API, not a SWE harness winner. OpenRouter does not even expose tools on this slug. Official Perplexity pricing.md prints $3 / $15 per 1M plus a per-request fee. AA exists but prints no copyable Intelligence Index integer.

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Identity

200,000Context in
8,000Context out
2025-03-07 (OpenRouter created 1741312423)Released
ProprietaryWeights
Canonical name
Sonar Pro
Aliases
sonar-pro, perplexity/sonar-pro
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
perplexity/sonar-pro
Hugging Face
None (closed or unpublished)
Modalities
text, image
Closed weights Not on Continuum host list Vendor lab

Closed search SKU. OpenRouter catalog 19 Aug 2026: perplexity/sonar-pro, 200,000 in / 8,000 out; text + image in, text out. hugging_face_id empty. Created unix 1741312423 (7 Mar 2025). Not listed as a Continuum hosted id.

OpenRouter supported_parameters for this slug: frequency_penalty, max_tokens, presence_penalty, temperature, top_k, top_p, web_search_options. Tools are absent. That is the product: cited web answers, not a repo agent.

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Should I use this for coding agents

Use Sonar Pro when the job is a cited web answer with live retrieval. Official Perplexity pricing.md prints token rates plus a per-request fee. OpenRouter’s catalog note says the listed $3 / $15 already includes Perplexity search pricing and also prints web_search $0.005. Cite both pages; do not invent a third fee.

No independent row for this SKU

No independent board lists this exact SKU as of 2026-08-19.

No other card from this lab carries an independent board row either, so there is no sibling worth pointing at.

Boards checked: DeepSWE official (2026-08-13), Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, vals.ai hero index. Every card that does carry a row is on the coding leaderboard.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysis

No Intelligence Index integer fetched for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Index

We did not open a vals.ai card for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source

vals.ai /models/perplexity_sonar-pro returned 404 on 19 Aug 2026. Chip omitted.

Named benches, printed only

Copied from AA or vals HTML we opened. 0.0% placeholder bars are omitted. Do not average these into the hero tiles, and do not invent CI, $/task, or steps for Artificial Analysis.

BenchPrintedNoteSourceURLAs of
Official token pair $3 / $15 per 1M Printed on Perplexity pricing.md for sonar-pro. Matches the OpenRouter list pair. Perplexity pricing.md source 2026-08-19
Official request fee $6 / $10 / $14 per 1,000 requests Printed low / medium / high on the same official page. A second line, not a token rate. Perplexity pricing.md source 2026-08-19
OpenRouter web_search field $0.005 Catalog field next to $3 / $15. Catalog note says token rates already include search pricing. OpenRouter catalog source 2026-08-19
AA printed pair $0.00 / $0.00 per 1M Printed In/Out on the AA Sonar Pro page. Not the official invoice. Do not chip it. Artificial Analysis Sonar Pro source 2026-08-19
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • Wrong tool for repo loops, worktrees, and long tool traces. The OpenRouter catalog does not advertise tools on this id. 8k max out is a ceiling, not a style choice.
  • AA’s Sonar Pro page exists (200) but prints no copyable Intelligence Index integer. The screen-reader line is “3 out of 4 units for Intelligence”: that is a quality meter, not an Index chip. We keep aa: null. Do not invent 3 as the tile.
  • AA prints In $0.00 / Out $0.00 on that page. Official Perplexity pricing.md prints $3 / $15 plus $6 / $10 / $14 per 1,000 requests. Those are two published tables. Do not invoice Sonar at AA’s zeros.
  • vals 404. Official DeepSWE board has no exact Sonar Pro row. Closed weights. Continuum does not host it.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.

04

Artifact

Weights

Perplexity does not publish Sonar weights. No HF button.

  • OpenRouter catalog web_search field: $0.005 (listed next to $3 / $15 tokens). The catalog note says token rates already include Perplexity search pricing.
  • Official Perplexity pricing.md, fetched 19 Aug 2026: sonar-pro input 3 / output 15 per 1M plus a per-request fee of $6 / $10 / $14 per 1,000 requests at low / medium / high. Token rates and the request fee are two lines on the same official page.
  • Supported params on the catalog: sampling + web_search_options. No tools, no tool_choice, no reasoning_effort.

What you can open

Lab card and OpenRouter listing only. No Hugging Face Files button, because there is no official repo to point at.

Fetched OpenRouter catalog on 2026-08-19. hugging_face_id was empty.

05

Continuum serving

Not listed as a Continuum hosted id. First-party Sonar API or OpenRouter perplexity/sonar-pro.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

06

Economics

Official Perplexity pricing.md, 19 Aug 2026: $3 / $15 per million plus $6 / $10 / $14 per 1,000 requests (low / medium / high). OpenRouter catalog prints $3 / $15 and web_search $0.005 and says token rates include search pricing. Cite both pages; do not invent a third fee.

No DeepSWE $/task. This slug has no tools on the catalog. AA’s printed pair on the same day is $0.00 / $0.00, not the invoice.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Sonar Pro.

Artificial Analysis Sonar Pro page (200, 19 Aug 2026) prints In $0.00 / Out $0.00, “Reasoning No”, and the screen-reader line “3 out of 4 units for Intelligence.” That meter is not an Intelligence Index integer. Speed is “Unknown out of 4 units.” Cost per Index task is not a dollar we can copy (the page leaves it unstated as a number). Chip omitted: aa stays null.

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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OR catalog $3 / $15, web_search $0.005, 200k / 8k, created 1741312423, no tools param, hugging_face_id emptyOpenRouter catalog2026-08-19
Official sonar-pro $3 / $15 per 1M plus $6 / $10 / $14 per 1,000 requests (low/medium/high)Perplexity pricing.md2026-08-19
AA page 200; printed $0.00 / $0.00; “3 out of 4 units for Intelligence” is a meter, not an Index integer; Speed Unknown; no copyable Index chipArtificial Analysis Sonar Pro2026-08-19
vals.ai perplexity_sonar-pro 404vals.ai Sonar Pro2026-08-19
Official DeepSWE board: no exact Sonar Pro rowDeepSWE official board2026-08-19
OpenRouter id perplexity/sonar-pro, context 200,000OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

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FAQ

Why is this in a coding-agent cluster?

Because people search the name. The when-not block is the point of the card: this slug has no tools on the catalog we fetched.

Can I point a Continuum session at it?

Not as a hosted id. The 19 Aug 2026 public allowlist does not name sonar-pro. Use first-party or OpenRouter if you actually want search-grounded answers.

Why no AA chip if the page exists?

The page prints a 3-out-of-4 quality meter, not an Intelligence Index integer. Inventing 3 as the tile would be a fabricated score.

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

No Continuum hosted id is verified for this model, so this page does not invent a curl target. Use the first-party API or the OpenRouter slug perplexity/sonar-pro.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.