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Sonar Pro Pro on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Sonar Pro Pro scores 87.9 on IFEval, placing it #105 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
87.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#105
of 600
Percentile
83th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
8.2
points

Score distribution

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

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Sonar Pro Pro sits at #105 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 8.2 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Sonar Pro Pro above the midpoint.

Perplexity models average 82.6 on this benchmark. Sonar Pro Pro is 5.3 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Perplexity model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Sonar Pro Pro is 2.7 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 87.9 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 $13.59 per million input tokens, Sonar Pro Pro is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Kimi K2 Chat Moonshot AI 400000 $5.74 82.1
MiniMax-M2 Chat MiniMax 200000 $5.02 80.2
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Vision Anthropic 400000 $13.96 81.0
Kimi K1.5 Moonshot AI 128000 $5.19 80.7
Sonar Pro Pro Perplexity 200000 $13.59 79.7
Command A Reasoning Cohere 400000 $13.74 80.2
Doubao 1.5 Pro Pro ByteDance 128000 $14.10 80.2

Other benchmarks for Sonar Pro Pro

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 79.4 202 66th
GPQA Diamond 72.6 210 65th
SWE-bench Verified 69.7 118 80th
HumanEval 83.0 160 73th
MATH-500 81.9 169 72th
AIME 2025 80.6 80 87th
LiveCodeBench 74.2 105 83th
TruthfulQA 79.3 208 65th
HellaSwag 88.7 122 80th
MMMU 78.9 77 87th
Arena Elo 1434.0 111 82th

FAQ

What score does Sonar Pro Pro get on IFEval?

Sonar Pro Pro scores 87.9 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Sonar Pro Pro rank on IFEval?

It ranks #105 of 600 models, in the 83rd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Sonar Pro Pro good at IFEval?

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 IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following 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 Pro cost?

Sonar Pro Pro costs $13.59 per million input tokens and $73.47 per million output tokens.

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