Meta: Llama 4 Maverick vs Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro

Side-by-side comparison — pricing, context window, capabilities, and live leaderboard data.

Key differences

  • Meta: Llama 4 Maverick has a 1049K-token context window — 8.2× larger than Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro's 128K.
  • Meta: Llama 4 Maverick is 93% cheaper per 1K input tokens than Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro ($0.0001 vs $0.0020).
  • Meta: Llama 4 Maverick is built by Meta; Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro is built by Perplexity.

Specifications

Meta: Llama 4 MaverickPerplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro
ProviderMetaPerplexity
Context window1049K128K
Max output tokens81928192
Input price / 1K tokens$0.0001$0.0020
Output price / 1K tokens$0.0006$0.0080
Vision supportYesYes
Function callingNoNo
LicenseProprietaryProprietary

About Meta: Llama 4 Maverick

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Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward...

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About Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro

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Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro) Sonar Reasoning Pro is a premier reasoning model powered by DeepSeek R1 with Chain of Thought (CoT). Designed for...

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