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

Sonar Pro Pro scores 74.2 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #105 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
74.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#105
of 600
Percentile
83th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
10.9
points

Score distribution

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Sonar Pro Pro sits at #105 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 10.9 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Sonar Pro Pro above the midpoint.

Perplexity models average 68.2 on this benchmark. Sonar Pro Pro is 6.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Perplexity model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 70.3. Sonar Pro Pro 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 74.2 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 LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI 128000 $5.41 81.7
GPT-4.1 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $14.88 82.0
Grok 3 xAI 128000 $15.84 82.8
Nova Pro Reasoning Amazon 200000 $13.48 79.4
Sonar Pro Pro Perplexity 200000 $13.59 79.7
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Pro Anthropic 128000 $16.07 83.3
Command A Reasoning Cohere 400000 $13.74 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
IFEval 87.9 105 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 LiveCodeBench?

Sonar Pro Pro scores 74.2 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Sonar Pro Pro rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #105 of 600 models, in the 83rd percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Sonar Pro Pro good at LiveCodeBench?

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 LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench 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 Pro cost?

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

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