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Sonar Pro

Perplexity's advanced search-grounded API model for multi-step queries with cited web sources.

Perplexity AI
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Where it ranks

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Search & research
Models · Cloud · 1,143 on LMArena Search Arena (style control)

Facts

Vendor: Perplexity AI
Family: Sonar Pro
Released: —
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
License: proprietary
API price: $3 in / $15 out per 1M tokens (Plus a request fee of $6 / $10 / $14 per 1K requests for low / medium / high search context.)
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Price from docs.perplexity.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
LMArena Search Arena (style control)	1,143	`ppl-sonar-pro-high` From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (search_style_control, split latest, category overall, published 2026-10-13), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/search (site blocks automated fetches). Rank 37 of 42; 28899 votes; 95% CI 1137.3-1149.1.	13 Oct 2026	huggingface.co

Where you can use it

–MammouthMammouth AI
SOpenRouterSearch APIs & engines · Cloud
–PoeQuora

Sources