Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Large memoryVisione

Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search è un modello multimodale pensato per ragionamento, pianificazione e automazione. Unisce la gestione multimodale degli input e uso affidabile degli strumenti e comportamento agentico, un contesto di 200K tokens e un profilo premium per un lavoro affidabile in reasoning, planning, and multi-step automation.

Input

$3.00/1M

Output

$15.00/1M

Cached

$0.75/1M

Batch

$1.50/1M

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Technical specifications

Sonar Pro Search at a glance.

Memory

200,000

tokens

Max reply

8,000

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

—

Released

Oct 2025

Training cutoff

Jun 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Sonar Pro Search

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.
  • Multimodal pipelines mixing text + images.

When to look elsewhere

  • You need tool-use / function calling for agent workflows.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Sonar Pro Search costs roughly $825 per month. Input is $3.00 /1M tokens and output is $15.00 /1M tokens.
Sonar Pro Search has a 200,000-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 37,500 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Sonar Pro Search supports understanding images, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Sonar Pro Search was released in October 2025, with training data cut off around June 2025.
Models in a similar class include Sonar Pro, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking). The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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