Sonar Max on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Sonar Max scores 85.3 on HellaSwag, placing it #232 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Sonar Max highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 10 | o4 Pro | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.37 | 87.3 |
What this score means
On HellaSwag, Sonar Max sits at #232 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 10.8 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Sonar Max above the midpoint.
Perplexity models average 84.7 on this benchmark. Sonar Max is 0.6 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Perplexity model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 86.8. Sonar Max is 1.5 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 85.3 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $11.60 per million input tokens, Sonar Max is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-Coder Base | Alibaba Cloud | 200000 | $3.99 | 76.6 |
| Sonar Pro | Perplexity | 65536 | $11.25 | 77.1 |
| Qwen3 Base | Alibaba Cloud | 65536 | $4.33 | 77.4 |
| Llama 3 Hyperbolic | Hyperbolic | 65536 | $3.86 | 74.5 |
| Sonar Max | Perplexity | 32768 | $11.60 | 77.8 |
| Llama 3 Anyscale Instruct | Anyscale | 200000 | $3.91 | 75.7 |
| Llama 3 Lambda Base | Lambda | 8192 | $3.19 | 72.9 |
Other benchmarks for Sonar Max
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 81.3 | 141 | 77th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 73.7 | 180 | 70th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 63.0 | 253 | 58th | |
| HumanEval | 82.1 | 186 | 69th | |
| MATH-500 | 83.3 | 143 | 76th | |
| AIME 2025 | 74.9 | 156 | 74th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 72.8 | 133 | 78th | |
| IFEval | 85.2 | 188 | 69th | |
| TruthfulQA | 78.9 | 224 | 63th | |
| MMMU | 75.4 | 156 | 74th | |
| Arena Elo | 1395.2 | 227 | 62th |
FAQ
What score does Sonar Max get on HellaSwag?
Sonar Max scores 85.3 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Sonar Max rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #232 of 600 models, in the 61st percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Sonar Max good at HellaSwag?
Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the HellaSwag score calculated?
HellaSwag is a commonsense benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Sonar Max cost?
Sonar Max costs $11.60 per million input tokens and $42.81 per million output tokens.