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Openai Gpt 4o Mini vs Sonar Pro

This page is context-first: how much text each model can take in one request. Full specs adds capabilities and limits; the pricing matrix below is only about $/million tokens from hosts that list both models.

Openai

Model

Openai Gpt 4o Mini

Context window

128K

128,000 tokens · ~96K words

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Perplexity

Model

Sonar Pro

Image input

Context window

200K

200,000 tokens · ~150K words

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Context window · side by side

Bar length is relative to the larger of the two windows (100% = max of this pair). This is not pricing.

Openai Gpt 4o Mini128K
Sonar Pro200K

Sonar Pro has about 1.6× the context window of the other in this pair.

Sonar Pro has 56% more context capacity (200K vs 128K tokens).

Quick verdicts

Short takeaways — validate with your own workloads.

  • Long document processing

    Use Sonar Pro. Its 200K context fits entire documents without chunking (vs 128K).

Full specs

Context, output, capabilities, and dates. Green highlights the favorable value where we compute a winner.

SpecOpenai Gpt 4o MiniSonar Pro
Context window128,000 tokens (128K)200,000 tokens (200K)
Max output tokensN/A8,000 tokens (8K)
Speed tierFastBalanced
VisionNoYes
Function callingNoNo
Extended thinkingNoNo
Prompt cachingNoNo
Batch APIYesNo
Release dateN/AMar 2025

Pricing matrix

Dollar rates only: hosts that list both models, per 1M tokens. For how much text fits, use the context section above — not this table.

ProviderOpenai Gpt 4o Mini inOpenai Gpt 4o Mini outSonar Pro inSonar Pro out
Gradient
Perplexity$3.00/M$15.00/M

Frequently asked questions

Sonar Pro has a larger context window: 200K tokens vs 128K. For long documents, large codebases, or extended agent sessions, the larger context window reduces the need to chunk inputs or summarize history.

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