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Sonar Pro Mini on AIME 2025: score, rank and what it means

Sonar Pro Mini scores 64.0 on AIME 2025, placing it #356 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 63.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 91.4.

Score
64.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#356
of 600
Percentile
41th
within the index
Benchmark avg
63.6
all models
Leader
91.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
27.4
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on AIME 2025, with Sonar Pro Mini highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 91.4
GPT-5.2 Pro 91.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 90.6
GPT-5.2 90.6
o4 Reasoning 90.3
o4 Pro 89.9
Claude Opus 4.5 89.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 89.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 88.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
3 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
4 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
5 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5
6 o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
8 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On AIME 2025, Sonar Pro Mini sits at #356 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 91.4, so the gap to the top is 27.4 points. The median model in this index scores 67.6, which puts Sonar Pro Mini below the midpoint.

Perplexity models average 69.8 on this benchmark. Sonar Pro Mini is 5.8 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Perplexity model.

Among mid-range models, the average is 60.1. Sonar Pro Mini is 3.9 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 64.0 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 $8.02 per million input tokens, Sonar Pro Mini is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on AIME 2025. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Gemma 3 Base Google DeepMind 65536 $3.09 71.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Nano Anthropic 8192 $8.93 72.0
o4 Nano OpenAI 65536 $8.61 72.0
Fusion Turbo OpenRouter 8192 $8.55 71.7
Sonar Pro Mini Perplexity 8192 $8.02 70.3
Hunyuan-Turbo Mini Tencent 8192 $6.59 68.3
OLMo 2 Allen Institute for AI 65536 $2.99 71.0

Other benchmarks for Sonar Pro Mini

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 73.8 358 40th
GPQA Diamond 68.7 303 50th
SWE-bench Verified 56.7 371 38th
HumanEval 77.4 301 50th
MATH-500 74.8 333 45th
LiveCodeBench 59.3 375 38th
IFEval 77.9 369 39th
TruthfulQA 73.1 367 39th
HellaSwag 80.7 376 37th
MMMU 67.3 356 41th
Arena Elo 1354.4 356 41th

FAQ

What score does Sonar Pro Mini get on AIME 2025?

Sonar Pro Mini scores 64.0 on AIME 2025 in this index. The benchmark average is 63.6 and the top score is 91.4.

How does Sonar Pro Mini rank on AIME 2025?

It ranks #356 of 600 models, in the 41st percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 91.4.

Is Sonar Pro Mini good at AIME 2025?

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 AIME 2025 score calculated?

AIME 2025 is a mathematics 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 Pro Mini cost?

Sonar Pro Mini costs $8.02 per million input tokens and $28.92 per million output tokens.

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