Sonar on MATH-500: score, rank and what it means
Sonar scores 76.3 on MATH-500, placing it #294 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on MATH-500, with Sonar highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg 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-5.1 Pro | OpenAI | 200000 | $19.77 | 87.8 |
| 4 | o4 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.69 | 87.5 |
| 5 | Grok 4 Max | xAI | 2000000 | $19.70 | 86.6 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 9 | Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning | Google DeepMind | 200000 | $19.69 | 87.5 |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo | Anthropic | 2000000 | $19.57 | 85.7 |
What this score means
On MATH-500, Sonar sits at #294 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.7, so the gap to the top is 20.4 points. The median model in this index scores 76.0, which puts Sonar above the midpoint.
Perplexity models average 78.7 on this benchmark. Sonar is 2.4 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Perplexity model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 81.3. Sonar is 5.0 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 76.3 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 $10.57 per million input tokens, Sonar is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MATH-500. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefunction Reasoning | Fireworks AI | 8192 | $9.08 | 72.5 |
| DBRX | Databricks | 65536 | $3.29 | 73.3 |
| Llama 3 Hyperbolic | Hyperbolic | 65536 | $3.86 | 74.5 |
| Magistral Base | Mistral AI | 65536 | $3.86 | 75.6 |
| Sonar | Perplexity | 200000 | $10.57 | 76.0 |
| Yi-Large | 01.AI | 32768 | $3.40 | 73.5 |
| Llama 3 Novita Chat | Novita AI | 65536 | $3.50 | 74.2 |
Other benchmarks for Sonar
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 79.1 | 207 | 66th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 71.2 | 237 | 61th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 65.8 | 198 | 67th | |
| HumanEval | 81.9 | 188 | 69th | |
| AIME 2025 | 73.9 | 187 | 69th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 68.5 | 217 | 64th | |
| IFEval | 84.7 | 198 | 67th | |
| TruthfulQA | 78.7 | 230 | 62th | |
| HellaSwag | 86.0 | 217 | 64th | |
| MMMU | 70.1 | 300 | 50th | |
| Arena Elo | 1394.1 | 233 | 61th |
FAQ
What score does Sonar get on MATH-500?
Sonar scores 76.3 on MATH-500 in this index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the top score is 96.7.
How does Sonar rank on MATH-500?
It ranks #294 of 600 models, in the 51st percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.
Is Sonar good at MATH-500?
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 MATH-500 score calculated?
MATH-500 is a mathematics 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 cost?
Sonar costs $10.57 per million input tokens and $50.13 per million output tokens.