DeepSeek VL2 vs Sonar Reasoning Pro
DeepSeek vs Perplexity — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.
- •Sonar Reasoning Pro has the higher intelligence index (95.7 vs 74.9)
- •Sonar Reasoning Pro is cheaper ($2.00 vs $9.50 per 1M input)
- •DeepSeek VL2 has a larger context window (129K)
| DeepSeek VL2 | Sonar Reasoning Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 74.9 | 95.7 |
| Developer | DeepSeek | Perplexity |
| Type | Multimodal | Multimodal |
| Access | Open weights | API only |
| Context window | 129,280 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input price | $9.50 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output price | $4,800.00 / 1M | $8.00 / 1M |
| Speed | 22 tok/s | — |
| Released | December 13, 2024 | March 7, 2025 |
| Parameters | 27000000000 | — |
| Input modalities | — | Text, Image |
| Output modalities | — | Text |