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GPT-5 ProvsSonar Pro

GPT-5 Pro and Sonar Pro do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Sonar Pro is 7.5x cheaper per token. GPT-5 Pro has the larger context window (400K tokens).

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

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Sonar Pro
7.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5 Pro
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
95.2802% · 100%
OpenAI · Perplexity
GPT-5 Pro
OpenAI · released 2025-10-06
textvision
Context
400K
Max out
272K
Input /1M
$15
Output /1M
$120
Cached /1M
Scores
3 · 3 core
Sonar Pro
Perplexity · released 2025-01-21
text
Context
200K
Max out
Input /1M
$3
Output /1M
$15
Cached /1M
Scores
1 · 0 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-5 ProSonar ProΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only GPT-5 Pro reports · 3
GPQA Diamond88.4% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)19.5% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)55.8% 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 GPT-5 Pro 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

SpecGPT-5 ProSonar ProEdge
Context window400K tokens200K tokensGPT-5 Pro
Max output272K tokens
Input price / 1M$15 $3 Sonar Pro
Output price / 1M$120 $15 Sonar Pro
Cached input / 1M
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$135$18Sonar Pro
Modalitiestext · visiontextGPT-5 Pro
Released2025-10-062025-01-21
Cited benchmark scores31
Reliability

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