Models / Perplexity

Sonar Reasoning Pro

GA

Precise reasoning model with Chain-of-Thought; emits a <think> reasoning section before the answer. 128K context. Token pricing $2/$8 per 1M in/out. Per-request search fee NOT in token price: $6/$10/$14 per 1,000 requests for low/medium/high search context (pricing page). Successor to the now-removed 'sonar-reasoning'. Image input with structured outputs not supported in thinking models. Max output tokens and knowledge cutoff not published. Exact release date not published in docs. Pricing page fetched 2026-06-28.

Provider
Perplexity
Status
GA
Input price
$2 / 1M tokens
Output price
$8 / 1M tokens
Cached input
Blended price
$3.50 / 1M tokens
Context window
128,000 tokens (128K)
Max output
Modality
text
Knowledge cutoff
Released
API string
sonar-reasoning-pro

Source: Perplexity official documentation ↗