Sonar Pro Nano: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Sonar Pro Nano is a mid-range model from Perplexity. It offers a 32,768-token context window, costs $5.50 per million input tokens and $22.25 per million output tokens, and averages 66.1 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Sonar Pro Nano costs $5.50 per million input tokens and $22.25 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $9.69 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.46 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5.50 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $22.25 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.46 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $9.69 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $27.75 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 68.6 | 410 | 32th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.5 | 387 | 36th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 55.4 | 381 | 37th | |
| HumanEval | 69.6 | 402 | 33th | |
| MATH-500 | 69.0 | 389 | 35th | |
| AIME 2025 | 58.8 | 395 | 34th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 58.2 | 388 | 35th | |
| IFEval | 73.1 | 416 | 31th | |
| TruthfulQA | 70.6 | 395 | 34th | |
| HellaSwag | 79.7 | 385 | 36th | |
| MMMU | 61.2 | 418 | 30th | |
| Arena Elo | 1328.5 | 390 | 35th |
What Sonar Pro Nano is good for
Sonar Pro Nano is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $5.50 per million input tokens with a 32,768-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron Nano | NVIDIA | 8192 | $2.24 | 66.6 |
| Command A Nano | Cohere | 8192 | $5.90 | 66.3 |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 8B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $2.02 | 66.2 |
| Nemotron Nano Chat | NVIDIA | 32768 | $2.21 | 66.2 |
| Embed 4 Max | Cohere | 8192 | $5.68 | 66.1 |
| Sonar Pro Nano | Perplexity | 32768 | $5.50 | 66.1 |
FAQ
How much does Sonar Pro Nano cost?
Sonar Pro Nano is listed at $5.50 per million input tokens and $22.25 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.46 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $9.69 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Sonar Pro Nano?
Sonar Pro Nano has a context window of 32,768 tokens and can emit up to 32,768 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Sonar Pro Nano open weights?
No. Sonar Pro Nano is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Sonar Pro Nano score on benchmarks?
Sonar Pro Nano averages 66.1 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #396 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1328.5.
What is Sonar Pro Nano best for?
Sonar Pro Nano is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $5.50 per million input tokens with a 32,768-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.