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Sonar Reasoning Pro: price, performance and context

Proprietary Sonar Reasoning Pro by Perplexity costs $2.00 per 1M input and $8.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 128K tokens in one request (≈ 380 pages of text) and scores 11.8 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 140 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
$8.00
Context window
128K tokens
Max. output
115.2K tokens
Performance index
11.8 points · rank 140 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$4.00 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Mar 07, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
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Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.011940
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.019530
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.21646

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