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Sonar Pro Search vs Qwen3-VL
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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S Sonar Pro Search | ||
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Perplexity AI | |
| OpenTools Score | 80 200 | |
| Family | Sonar | Qwen3 |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Oct 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Context Window | 200K tokens | 131K tokens |
| Input Price | $3.00/M tokens | $0.20/M tokens |
| Output Price | $15.00/M tokens | $0.60/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncode | textvisioncodetool-use |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | 8K tokens |
| API Identifier | perplexity/sonar-pro-search | qwen-vl-max |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU | 83 | — |
| MMMU | — | 70.3 |
| DocVQA | — | 94.1 |
| ChartQA | — | 86.5 |
| OCRBench | — | 88.7 |
| MathVista | — | 74.8 |
| RealWorldQA | — | 75.2 |
| Video-MME | — | 69.8 |
| View Sonar Pro Search | View Qwen3-VL | |
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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% |
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-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.
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