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Sonar Pro vs Nova Lite 1.0
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated May 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 16 1.7 | |
| Family | Sonar | Nova |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | Dec 2024 |
| Context Window | 200K tokens | 300K tokens |
| Input Price | $3.00/M tokens | $0.06/M tokens |
| Output Price | $15.00/M tokens | $0.24/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncode | textvisioncode |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | 5K tokens |
| API Identifier | perplexity/sonar-pro | amazon/nova-lite-v1 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA Diamond | 57.8perplexity | — |
| MMLU Pro | 75.5perplexity | — |
| MATH-500 | 74.5perplexity | — |
| AIME | 29perplexity | — |
| MMLU | — | 72openrouter |
| View Sonar Pro | View Nova Lite 1.0 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Lite 1.0Cheapest | $0.06 | $0.12 | $0.18 | — |
| Sonar Pro | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +5733% |
Perplexity AI
Sonar Pro
Sonar Pro 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.
Amazon
Nova Lite 1.0
Nova Lite 1.0 is a multimodal llm from Amazon. Supports up to 300,000 token context window. Achieves 72.0% on MMLU. Available from $0.06/M input tokens.
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