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Sonar Pro Search vs Grok 4.20
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated May 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 22 2.4 | 77 19.1 |
| Family | Sonar | Grok |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Oct 2025 | Mar 2026 |
| Context Window | 200K tokens | 2.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $3.00/M tokens | $2.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $15.00/M tokens | $6.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cache read: $0.2000/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncode | textvisioncode |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | — |
| API Identifier | perplexity/sonar-pro-search | x-ai/grok-4.20 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA Diamond | 47.1perplexity | — |
| MMLU Pro | 68.9perplexity | — |
| MATH-500 | 81.7perplexity | — |
| AIME | 48.7perplexity | — |
| View Sonar Pro Search | View Grok 4.20 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4.20Cheapest | $2.00 | $3.00 | $5.00 | — |
| Sonar Pro Search | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +110% |
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.
xAI
Grok 4.20
Grok 4.20 is a multimodal llm from xAI. Supports up to 2,000,000 token context window. Available from $2.00/M input tokens.
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