LLM Comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Sonar Pro Search

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated May 2026

Price vs Intelligence

7257422712$0.74$3.48$6.22$8.96$11.70Avg Price per M tokensIntelligenceKimi K2.561.8 / $1.05Sonar Pro Search21.5 / $9.00

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 Moonshot AIKimi K2.5Perplexity AISonar Pro Search
OrganizationMoonshot AIMoonshot AIPerplexity AIPerplexity AI
OpenTools Score
62
58.8
22
2.4
FamilyKimiSonar
StatusCurrentCurrent
Release DateJan 2026Oct 2025
Context Window262K tokens200K tokens
Input Price$0.38/M tokens$3.00/M tokens
Output Price$1.72/M tokens$15.00/M tokens
Pricing NotesCache read: $0.1913/M tokens—
Capabilities
textvisioncode
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Max Output66K tokens8K tokens
API Identifiermoonshotai/kimi-k2.5perplexity/sonar-pro-search
Benchmarks
GPQA Diamond—
47.1perplexity
MMLU Pro—
68.9perplexity
MATH-500—
81.7perplexity
AIME—
48.7perplexity
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ModelInputOutputTotal / movs Best
Kimi K2.5Cheapest$0.38$0.86$1.24—
Sonar Pro Search$3.00$7.50$10.50+745%

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is a multimodal llm from Moonshot AI. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.38/M input tokens.

Perplexity AI

Sonar Pro Search

Sonar Pro Search is a multimodal llm from Perplexity AI. Supports up to 200,000 token context window. Achieves 83.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.

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