LLM Comparison
Qwen3.5-9B vs Sonar Pro Search
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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S Sonar Pro Search | ||
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Perplexity AI | |
| OpenTools Score | 45 362 | 29 3.2 |
| Family | Qwen | Sonar |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2026 | Oct 2025 |
| Context Window | 262K tokens | 200K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.10/M tokens | $3.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.15/M tokens | $15.00/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisionvideocode | textvisioncode |
| Max Output | — | 8K tokens |
| API Identifier | qwen/qwen3.5-9b | perplexity/sonar-pro-search |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 82.5alibaba | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 81.7alibaba | 47.1perplexity |
| IFEval | 91.5alibaba | — |
| HMMT 2025 | 83.2alibaba | — |
| TAU2-Bench | 79.1alibaba | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 70.1alibaba | — |
| MMLU Pro | — | 68.9perplexity |
| MATH-500 | — | 81.7perplexity |
| AIME | — | 48.7perplexity |
| View Qwen3.5-9B | View Sonar Pro Search | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-9BCheapest | $0.10 | $0.08 | $0.18 | — |
| Sonar Pro Search | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +5900% |
Alibaba
Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal llm from Alibaba. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Achieves 87.5% on MMLU. Available from $0.10/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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