Sonar Nano on MMLU-Pro: score, rank and what it means
Sonar Nano scores 65.8 on MMLU-Pro, placing it #439 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on MMLU-Pro, with Sonar Nano highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 2 | GPT-5.1 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $20.50 | 87.9 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
| 5 | Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning | Google DeepMind | 200000 | $19.69 | 87.5 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.71 | 88.0 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 9 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Pro Max | Google DeepMind | 2000000 | $20.57 | 87.9 |
What this score means
On MMLU-Pro, Sonar Nano sits at #439 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 91.6, so the gap to the top is 25.8 points. The median model in this index scores 76.1, which puts Sonar Nano below the midpoint.
Perplexity models average 77.4 on this benchmark. Sonar Nano is 11.6 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Perplexity model.
Among mid-range models, the average is 71.5. Sonar Nano is 5.7 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 65.8 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 $4.37 per million input tokens, Sonar Nano is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MMLU-Pro. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reka Flash Nano | Reka AI | 16384 | $3.93 | 61.0 |
| StableLM 2 Chat | Stability AI | 8192 | $1.79 | 64.6 |
| Kimi K1.5 7B | Moonshot AI | 8192 | $1.35 | 59.9 |
| Hunyuan-Turbo Nano | Tencent | 32768 | $4.65 | 62.7 |
| Sonar Nano | Perplexity | 4096 | $4.37 | 61.9 |
| Zephyr Instruct | Hugging Face | 4096 | $1.66 | 62.4 |
| Codestral 8B | Mistral AI | 4096 | $1.18 | 59.0 |
Other benchmarks for Sonar Nano
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.4 | 434 | 28th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 48.4 | 435 | 28th | |
| HumanEval | 63.7 | 453 | 25th | |
| MATH-500 | 66.7 | 411 | 32th | |
| AIME 2025 | 50.6 | 456 | 24th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 55.1 | 404 | 33th | |
| IFEval | 70.7 | 446 | 26th | |
| TruthfulQA | 68.5 | 409 | 32th | |
| HellaSwag | 75.1 | 441 | 27th | |
| MMMU | 59.2 | 438 | 27th | |
| Arena Elo | 1303.0 | 413 | 31th |
FAQ
What score does Sonar Nano get on MMLU-Pro?
Sonar Nano scores 65.8 on MMLU-Pro in this index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the top score is 91.6.
How does Sonar Nano rank on MMLU-Pro?
It ranks #439 of 600 models, in the 27th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.
Is Sonar Nano good at MMLU-Pro?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the MMLU-Pro score calculated?
MMLU-Pro is a knowledge 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 Nano cost?
Sonar Nano costs $4.37 per million input tokens and $16.96 per million output tokens.