LLM Comparison
Sonar Pro Search vs Qwen3.5-9B
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated May 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 22 2.4 | 35 282 |
| Family | Sonar | Qwen |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Oct 2025 | Mar 2026 |
| Context Window | 200K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $3.00/M tokens | $0.10/M tokens |
| Output Price | $15.00/M tokens | $0.15/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncode | textvisionvideocode |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | — |
| API Identifier | perplexity/sonar-pro-search | qwen/qwen3.5-9b |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA Diamond | 47.1perplexity | 81.7alibaba |
| MMLU Pro | 68.9perplexity | — |
| MATH-500 | 81.7perplexity | — |
| AIME | 48.7perplexity | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82.5alibaba |
| IFEval | — | 91.5alibaba |
| HMMT 2025 | — | 83.2alibaba |
| TAU2-Bench | — | 79.1alibaba |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 70.1alibaba |
| View Sonar Pro Search | View Qwen3.5-9B | |
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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% |
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.
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.
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