Multimodal · Perplexity

Sonar Pro Reasoning on MMMU: score, rank and what it means

Sonar Pro Reasoning scores 76.1 on MMMU, placing it #137 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.

Score
76.1
0–100 scale
Rank
#137
of 600
Percentile
77th
within the index
Benchmark avg
67.1
all models
Leader
86.9
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
10.8
points

Score distribution

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

GPT-5.2 Max 86.9
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 86.2
GPT-5.2 85.3
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.2
GPT-5.1 Max 85.1
Grok 4 Pro 84.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Pro 84.5
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.4
GPT-5.2 Vision 84.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
2 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
3 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
5 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
6 Grok 4 Pro xAI 1000000 $19.00 85.4
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Pro Anthropic 1000000 $18.73 86.7
9 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
10 GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4

What this score means

On MMMU, Sonar Pro Reasoning sits at #137 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 86.9, so the gap to the top is 10.8 points. The median model in this index scores 70.0, which puts Sonar Pro Reasoning above the midpoint.

Perplexity models average 71.2 on this benchmark. Sonar Pro Reasoning is 4.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Perplexity model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 74.3. Sonar Pro Reasoning is 1.8 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 76.1 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 $13.94 per million input tokens, Sonar Pro Reasoning is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MMMU. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Kimi K1.5 Base Moonshot AI 65536 $4.34 77.4
Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI 128000 $5.41 81.7
Qwen3-Coder Chat Alibaba Cloud 128000 $4.59 78.4
Nemotron 4 NVIDIA 65536 $4.18 76.6
Sonar Pro Reasoning Perplexity 128000 $13.94 80.5
Yi-Lightning 01.AI 32768 $4.22 77.2
Codestral Mistral AI 65536 $4.19 77.6

Other benchmarks for Sonar Pro Reasoning

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 82.6 112 81th
GPQA Diamond 76.2 116 81th
SWE-bench Verified 71.7 82 86th
HumanEval 82.7 166 72th
MATH-500 85.1 108 82th
AIME 2025 73.7 194 68th
LiveCodeBench 75.6 90 85th
IFEval 87.1 131 78th
TruthfulQA 84.4 77 87th
HellaSwag 89.9 89 85th
Arena Elo 1439.7 97 84th

FAQ

What score does Sonar Pro Reasoning get on MMMU?

Sonar Pro Reasoning scores 76.1 on MMMU in this index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the top score is 86.9.

How does Sonar Pro Reasoning rank on MMMU?

It ranks #137 of 600 models, in the 77th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.

Is Sonar Pro Reasoning good at MMMU?

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 MMMU score calculated?

MMMU is a multimodal 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 Reasoning cost?

Sonar Pro Reasoning costs $13.94 per million input tokens and $72.76 per million output tokens.

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