Model comparison
Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Gemini 2.5 Pro
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Sonar Reasoning Pro
Not scored
value score
Gemini 2.5 Pro
93
value score
Sonar Reasoning Pro ctx
—
Gemini 2.5 Pro ctx
1.0M
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- Gemini 2.5 Pro93
Attribute tape
| Field | Sonar Reasoning Pro | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Perplexity | Google DeepMind |
| Context | — | 1.0M |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image, Audio, Video | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | — |
| Price | — | $1.25/1M in · $10/1M out |
| Value score | — | 93 |
| Summary | Sonar Reasoning Pro is Perplexity's high-performance reasoning model that combines multi-step chain-of-thought reasoning with live web retrieval to produce citation-backed answers for complex research and analysis tasks. It replaced the deprecated sonar-reasoning model and is available via the Perplexity Sonar API. | Google frontier multimodal model. |