LLM Comparison
Qwen3-VL 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 | 75 188 | 29 3.2 |
| Family | Qwen3 | Sonar |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Apr 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Context Window | 131K tokens | 200K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.20/M tokens | $3.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.60/M tokens | $15.00/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncodetool-use | textvisioncode |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | 8K tokens |
| API Identifier | qwen-vl-max | perplexity/sonar-pro-search |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMMU | 70.3openrouter | — |
| DocVQA | 94.1openrouter | — |
| ChartQA | 86.5openrouter | — |
| OCRBench | 88.7openrouter | — |
| MathVista | 74.8openrouter | — |
| RealWorldQA | 75.2openrouter | — |
| Video-MME | 69.8openrouter | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.1perplexity |
| MMLU Pro | — | 68.9perplexity |
| MATH-500 | — | 81.7perplexity |
| AIME | — | 48.7perplexity |
| View Qwen3-VL | View Sonar Pro Search | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-VLCheapest | $0.20 | $0.30 | $0.50 | — |
| Sonar Pro Search | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +2000% |
Alibaba
Qwen3-VL
Qwen3-VL is Alibaba's multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3 family. It processes images, videos, and text together, excelling at document understanding, chart reading, OCR, and visual reasoning tasks across multiple languages.
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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