Input Price
$2.00
/1M tokens
Output Price
$8.00
/1M tokens
About Sonar Reasoning Pro
Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro) Sonar Reasoning Pro is a premier reasoning model powered by DeepSeek R1 with Chain of Thought (CoT). Designed for advanced use cases, it supports in-depth, multi-step queries with a larger context window and can surface more citations per search, enabling more comprehensive and extensible responses.
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Price Ranking
#1116 lowest price among 1240 Chat models
Model Specifications
Context Length
128k
Max Output
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Release Date
2025-03-07
Capabilities
chat reasoning vision
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text
Best For
- Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
- Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
- Conversations, content writing, general assistance
Consider Alternatives For
- Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)
๐ฐ Real-World Cost Examples
Estimated monthly costs for common use cases
Personal AI Assistant
$3.30
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
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$102.00
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
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$141.00
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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