LLM Comparison
Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Claude Opus 4.6
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated May 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 44 8.8 | 63 4.2 |
| Family | Sonar | Claude |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 128K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $2.00/M tokens | $5.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $8.00/M tokens | $25.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cache read: $0.5000/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncodeextended-thinking | textvisioncodetool-use |
| Max Output | — | 128K tokens |
| API Identifier | perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro | anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA Diamond | 62.3perplexity | 91.3anthropic |
| MATH-500 | 92.1perplexity | — |
| AIME | 77perplexity | — |
| MMLU Pro | 79perplexity | — |
| MMLU | — | 89.8anthropic |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 80.8anthropic |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 53.4anthropic |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 65.4anthropic |
| MATH 500 | — | 80.7anthropic |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 55.9anthropic |
| Berkeley Function Calling | — | 91.9anthropic |
| HLE | — | 48anthropic |
| MCP-Atlas | — | 75.8anthropic |
| BrowseComp | — | 83.7anthropic |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 72.7anthropic |
| DocVQA | — | 91.3anthropic |
| GPQA-AA Elo | — | 1619artificial-analysis |
| View Sonar Reasoning Pro | View Claude Opus 4.6 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar Reasoning ProCheapest | $2.00 | $4.00 | $6.00 | — |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5.00 | $12.50 | $17.50 | +192% |
Perplexity AI
Sonar Reasoning Pro
Sonar Reasoning Pro is a multimodal llm from Perplexity AI. Supports up to 128,000 token context window. Achieves 83.0% on MMLU. Available from $2.00/M input tokens.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6 is a multimodal LLM from Anthropic with adaptive reasoning capabilities. Achieves 91.3% on GPQA Diamond and 80.8% on SWE-bench Verified. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Available from $5.00/M input tokens.
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