Coding · Perplexity

Sonar Pro Nano on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means

Sonar Pro Nano scores 69.6 on HumanEval, placing it #402 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
69.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#402
of 600
Percentile
33th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
27.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Sonar Pro Nano highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, Sonar Pro Nano sits at #402 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 27.2 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Sonar Pro Nano below the midpoint.

Perplexity models average 78.6 on this benchmark. Sonar Pro Nano is 9.0 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 Pro Nano is 1.9 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 69.6 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 $5.50 per million input tokens, Sonar Pro Nano is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
DeepSeek-V3.2 8B DeepSeek 32768 $2.02 66.2
Nemotron Nano NVIDIA 8192 $2.24 66.6
StableLM 2 Chat Stability AI 8192 $1.79 64.6
Embed 4 Max Cohere 8192 $5.68 66.1
Sonar Pro Nano Perplexity 32768 $5.50 66.1
SmolLM3 Hugging Face 8192 $1.71 63.1
StableLM 2 Instruct Stability AI 16384 $1.93 65.2

Other benchmarks for Sonar Pro Nano

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 68.6 410 32th
GPQA Diamond 62.5 387 36th
SWE-bench Verified 55.4 381 37th
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

FAQ

What score does Sonar Pro Nano get on HumanEval?

Sonar Pro Nano scores 69.6 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Sonar Pro Nano rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #402 of 600 models, in the 33rd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Sonar Pro Nano good at HumanEval?

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 HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval is a coding 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 Nano cost?

Sonar Pro Nano costs $5.50 per million input tokens and $22.25 per million output tokens.

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