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Sonar Pro Search perplexity
Release timeline
Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.
- 2025-10-30 · API only source seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC
Description
Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based...
via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.
Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints
Hosted endpoints observed for Sonar Pro Search, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $3.00/M.
| Provider | Model ref | Context | Quant | $/M in | $/M out | tok/s | TTFT | Tools | Status | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity openrouter | perplexity/sonar-pro-search | 195K | unknown | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | — | live | 2026-10-24 |
No third-party providers observed beyond the lab's own endpoints.
Facts
| Context length | 200,000 tokens (195K) · OpenRouter listing |
|---|---|
| Modalities | text + image → text |
| Max completion tokens | 8,000 |
| Supported parameters | frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, structured_outputs, temperature, top_k, top_p, web_search_options |
| Openness | Closed weights · closed lab |
| Stage | API only |
| Confidence | medium |
| Pricing (USD per M tokens) |
in $3.00 · out $15.00 OpenRouter list price (cheapest live endpoint) · source · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC |
Open alternatives 5
Nearest open-weights models by modality, context and price on this watch list. Not a quality ranking.
| Model | Org | Params | Context | $/M in | License | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-4B | Qwen | 4.66B | 256K | — | apache-2.0 | similar context (262K), vision input |
| gemma-4-E4B-it | 8.00B | 128K | — | apache-2.0 | vision input | |
| Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct | Qwen | 8.29B | 125K | — | apache-2.0 | vision input |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | Qwen | 4.44B | 256K | — | apache-2.0 | similar context (262K), vision input |
| Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct | Qwen | 2.13B | 256K | — | apache-2.0 | similar context (262K), vision input |
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Sources
- openrouter perplexity/sonar-pro-search · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC
Radar run: 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC