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Sonar Pro
by Perplexity
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RANKED #324 OF 337 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #510 OF 528 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 4.7 · 221 VOICES
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Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro) For enterprises seeking more advanced capabilities, t
HAPPY6.1
16 mentions
SAD8.9
23 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 48 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Perplexity hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Sonar Pro is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick for strong private multimodal reasoning and coding on local hardware.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE16.0k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.3
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekPick for high performance multimodal vision and tool reasoning at low cost.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY⚡ FAST4.6k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.5Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaPick for fast and budget friendly everyday coding and multimodal tasks.⚡ FAST💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE6.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Sonar Pro. Biggest praise: price.
184 POSTS · 37 COMMENTS · REDDIT · DEV.TO · LEMMY · GITHUB · X
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (8 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (1 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PricePEOPLE LOVE THIS
8 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2026-02-17 · 587 UPVOTESCar Wash Test on 53 leading models: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”
Car Wash Test on 53 leading models: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”
- REDDIT · 2025-02-12 · 311 UPVOTESI built a deep research agent with Perplexity API that works as well if not better than OpenAI's Deep Research
I built a deep research agent with Perplexity API that works as well if not better than OpenAI's Deep Research
- REDDIT · 2025-02-11 · 294 UPVOTESI made a better Deep Research agent that's multiple times cheaper
I made a better Deep Research agent that's multiple times cheaper
- REDDIT · 2025-02-19 · 276 UPVOTESDeepseek "search" is miles ahead of anything else out there
Deepseek "search" is miles ahead of anything else out there
- REDDIT · 2024-07-27 · 110 UPVOTESMy Review of SearchGPT. How does it perform? Should you cancel your sub to Perplexity Pro?
My Review of SearchGPT. How does it perform? Should you cancel your sub to Perplexity Pro?
- REDDIT · 2024-12-26 · 82 UPVOTESPerplexity or ChatGPT?
Perplexity or ChatGPT?
- REDDIT · 2024-09-01 · 75 UPVOTESSearchGPT review a fortnight in
SearchGPT review a fortnight in
- REDDIT · 2024-07-27 · 55 UPVOTESComment in r/OpenAI
Comment in r/OpenAI
- X · 2026-08-16 · 52 UPVOTES$420 A MONTH ON AI. THEN $20. Same models Same quality Different path Claude Max, ChatGPT Pro, Cursor, Perplexity Most o
$420 A MONTH ON AI. THEN $20. Same models Same quality Different path Claude Max, ChatGPT Pro, Cursor, Perplexity Most o
- X · 2026-08-13 · 43 UPVOTES🚨 FREE vs PAID AI Tools (2026) Don’t pay for AI tools you don’t actually need. Here are 80 AI tools across 8 categories
🚨 FREE vs PAID AI Tools (2026) Don’t pay for AI tools you don’t actually need. Here are 80 AI tools across 8 categories
- REDDIT · 2025-03-15 · 35 UPVOTESRidiculous API cost of Perplexity AI
Ridiculous API cost of Perplexity AI
- REDDIT · 2025-10-22 · 34 UPVOTESAI prompt for Suno prompts (hear me out!)
AI prompt for Suno prompts (hear me out!)