Sonar Pro with Jev
Sonar Pro is a model from Perplexity, released 2025-03-07. It costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, reads up to 200K tokens of context, and writes up to 8,000 tokens in one reply. Through llm11, set model to perplexity/sonar-pro.
- Input price
- $3.00 / 1M
- Output price
- $15 / 1M
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Max output
- 8K tokens
- Released
- 2025-03-07
- Accepts
- text, image
Read from the live catalogue and refreshed daily. At blended list price, 8% of the 332 priced models we can call cost more.
Using Sonar Pro with Jev
Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One model. It reads each request first and decides which model in your pool answers, with a calibrated confidence on that call. Sonar Pro does the answering when Jev sends it work, or when you name it yourself. At list price Sonar Pro falls in the llm11-smart band, but no pack routes to it because it does not advertise structured output, which the verification checks rely on. You can still pin it: pass perplexity/sonar-pro as model and routing steps aside while verification still runs.
Jev is new, so we have not published results for Sonar Pro with and without it, and this page does not invent any. Every response comes with a receipt that names the model that answered and what it cost against your most expensive model, so you can measure the pairing on your own traffic.
What a request costs
List price arithmetic, the same sum a receipt does. llm11 adds nothing per request; the only fee is on buying credits.
| Request | Tokens in / out | One | A thousand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 500 / 200 | $0.00450 | $4.50 |
| Question over retrieved documents | 4,000 / 500 | $0.019 | $19.50 |
| Long document summary | 30,000 / 1,000 | $0.105 | $105.00 |
Cheaper models to try
The catalogue has no benchmark score for Sonar Pro, so this is a price ordering. It does not claim these answer as well.
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI GPT-5.4 | $2.50 | $15 | 1.05M | |
| OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex | $1.75 | $14 | 400K | |
| OpenAI GPT-5.2-Codex | $1.75 | $14 | 400K | |
| OpenAI GPT-5.2 | $1.75 | $14 | 400K |
Call it
Same OpenAI request shape. Naming the model pins it, so nothing is routed, and the answer is still checked.
python
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.llm11.com/v1", api_key="llm11_live_...")
res = client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)More from Perplexity
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Pro Search | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | |
| Sonar Deep Research | $2.00 | $8.00 | 128K | |
| Sonar Reasoning Pro | $2.00 | $8.00 | 128K | |
| Sonar | $1.00 | $1.00 | 127K |
Questions
- What is Sonar Pro with Jev?
- Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One model. It reads each request first and decides which model in your pool answers, with a calibrated confidence on that call. Sonar Pro does the answering when Jev sends it work, or when you name it yourself. At list price Sonar Pro falls in the llm11-smart band, but no pack routes to it because it does not advertise structured output, which the verification checks rely on. You can still pin it: pass perplexity/sonar-pro as model and routing steps aside while verification still runs. Routing decisions are made by Jev, TypeSafe AI's System One model.
- Is Sonar Pro a System One model?
- No. Sonar Pro answers requests. The System One model is Jev, which decides which model answers each one, so the two do different jobs and llm11 uses both.
- How much does Sonar Pro cost?
- $3.00 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. A 4,000 token prompt with a 500 token answer costs about $0.019, so a thousand of them is about $19.50. llm11 passes provider list price through and charges 5% when you buy credits.
- What is the Sonar Pro context window?
- 200,000 tokens, with up to 8,000 tokens in a single reply.
- Does Sonar Pro support tool calling and structured output?
- The catalogue does not list tool calling, structured output and reasoning controls.
- Can I use Sonar Pro through llm11?
- Yes. Set model to perplexity/sonar-pro on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint and the request goes to it directly, with verification still running.
- Does Jev route to Sonar Pro?
- Routing decisions are made by Jev, TypeSafe AI's System One model. At list price Sonar Pro falls in the llm11-smart band, but no pack routes to it because it does not advertise structured output, which the verification checks rely on. You can still pin it: pass perplexity/sonar-pro as model and routing steps aside while verification still runs.
- What is a cheaper alternative to Sonar Pro?
- Nearest in price and below it: OpenAI GPT-5.4 at $2.50 in and $15 out, OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex at $1.75 in and $14 out and OpenAI GPT-5.2-Codex at $1.75 in and $14 out. The catalogue has no benchmark score for Sonar Pro, so this is a price ordering. It does not claim these answer as well.