Sonar Max on MMMU: score, rank and what it means
Sonar Max scores 75.4 on MMMU, placing it #156 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on MMMU, 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-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.71 | 88.0 |
| 4 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 5 | GPT-5.1 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $20.50 | 87.9 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Pro | xAI | 1000000 | $19.00 | 85.4 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 1000000 | $18.73 | 86.7 |
| 9 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 10 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
What this score means
On MMMU, Sonar Max sits at #156 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 86.9, so the gap to the top is 11.5 points. The median model in this index scores 70.0, which puts Sonar Max above the midpoint.
Perplexity models average 71.2 on this benchmark. Sonar Max is 4.2 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Perplexity model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 74.3. Sonar Max is 1.1 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 75.4 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 MMMU. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command A Turbo | Cohere | 32768 | $13.53 | 79.8 |
| GLM-4.5 Instruct | Zhipu AI | 200000 | $4.70 | 78.8 |
| GLM-4.6 | Zhipu AI | 128000 | $5.10 | 80.2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick Chat | Meta AI | 128000 | $5.09 | 79.7 |
| Sonar Max | Perplexity | 32768 | $11.60 | 77.8 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 1000000 | $15.07 | 80.8 |
| Llama 3.3 Groq | Groq | 32768 | $3.98 | 76.8 |
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 | |
| HellaSwag | 85.3 | 232 | 61th | |
| Arena Elo | 1395.2 | 227 | 62th |
FAQ
What score does Sonar Max get on MMMU?
Sonar Max scores 75.4 on MMMU in this index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the top score is 86.9.
How does Sonar Max rank on MMMU?
It ranks #156 of 600 models, in the 74th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.
Is Sonar Max good at MMMU?
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 MMMU score calculated?
MMMU is a multimodal 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.