Coding · Perplexity

Sonar Pro Pro on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

Sonar Pro Pro scores 69.7 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #118 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
69.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#118
of 600
Percentile
80th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
12.0
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Sonar Pro Pro highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
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 SWE-bench Verified, Sonar Pro Pro sits at #118 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 12.0 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Sonar Pro Pro above the midpoint.

Perplexity models average 63.8 on this benchmark. Sonar Pro Pro is 5.9 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Perplexity model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 66.4. Sonar Pro Pro is 3.3 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 69.7 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 SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
ERNIE 4.5 Reasoning Baidu 1000000 $14.36 79.8
Magistral Instruct Mistral AI 65536 $4.48 78.4
Command A Max Cohere 400000 $14.28 79.9
Doubao 1.5 Pro Reasoning ByteDance 128000 $14.56 81.6
Sonar Pro Pro Perplexity 200000 $13.59 79.7
Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 128000 $15.11 81.4
DeepSeek-V3.2 Chat DeepSeek 1000000 $5.80 82.5

Other benchmarks for Sonar Pro Pro

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 79.4 202 66th
GPQA Diamond 72.6 210 65th
HumanEval 83.0 160 73th
MATH-500 81.9 169 72th
AIME 2025 80.6 80 87th
LiveCodeBench 74.2 105 83th
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 SWE-bench Verified?

Sonar Pro Pro scores 69.7 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Sonar Pro Pro rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #118 of 600 models, in the 80th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Sonar Pro Pro good at SWE-bench Verified?

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 SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified 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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