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.
Context window
This model accepts 128K tokens in one request (~96K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- Won't fitSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
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- Context window
- 128,000 tokens (128K)
- Speed tier
- deep
- Provider
- Perplexity
- Release date
- Mar 2025
- Input cost
- $2.00/M / 1M tokens
- Output cost
- $8.00/M / 1M tokens
Capabilities
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- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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Frequently asked questions
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