Perplexity model benchmarks.

Compare Perplexity models across answer quality, coding, complex tasks, speed, price, and context size.

Quality

Highest overall scores

  1. 1Perplexity: Sonar Pro0
  2. 2Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search0
  3. 3Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro0

Response speed

Fastest output in this sample

  1. 1Perplexity: Sonar Pro102 t/s
  2. 2Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search48 t/s
  3. 3Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro7 t/s

Input price

Lowest price per 1M tokens

  1. 1Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro$2.00/1M
  2. 2Perplexity: Sonar Pro$3.00/1M
  3. 3Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search$3.00/1M

Highlights

Quality

Overall capability · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Input price

USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better

Quality benchmarks

Compare Perplexity model capability.

Performance and price

Compare practical tradeoffs.

All Perplexity models.

3 models in the current catalogue.

Perplexity technical benchmarks.

Compare named evaluation records available for Perplexity models. Missing results remain blank rather than being estimated.

BenchmarkAreaSonar ProSonar Pro SearchSonar Reasoning ProSource
GPQAGPQA Diamond57.8——OpenRouter model benchmarks
Humanity's Last ExamHLE6.6——OpenRouter model benchmarks
SciCodeSciCode22.6——OpenRouter model benchmarks