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DeepSeek R1vsSonar Pro

DeepSeek R1 and Sonar Pro do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Sonar Pro has the larger context window (200K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Sonar Pro
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
DeepSeek · Perplexity
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek · released 2025-01-20
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Context
128K
Max out
33K
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
8 · 7 core
Sonar Pro
Perplexity · released 2025-01-21
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Context
200K
Max out
Input /1M
$3
Output /1M
$15
Cached /1M
Scores
1 · 0 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek R1Sonar ProΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only DeepSeek R1 reports · 7
SWE-bench Verified49.2% not reported
GPQA Diamond71.5% not reported
MMLU90.8% not reported
MMLU-Pro84% not reported
AIME 202570% matharenanot reported
LMArena Elo1372.6 not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)53.3% epochnot reported
Only Sonar Pro reports · 1
SimpleQA F-scorenot reported85.8%
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek R1 minus Sonar Pro in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek R1Sonar ProEdge
Context window128K tokens200K tokensSonar Pro
Max output33K tokens
Input price / 1M$3
Output price / 1M$15
Cached input / 1M
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$18
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2025-01-202025-01-21
Cited benchmark scores81
Reliability

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