Best Perplexity Vision Models

Match · Updated July 2026

Sonar Reasoning Pro is the best vision-capable Perplexity model, pairing 17.8 intelligence with image and document understanding. Sonar (9.5) and Sonar Pro (9.3) round out the top three.

17.8Intelligence

$2.00Input /M

128KContext

Multimodal large language models that accept image input, ranked by intelligence. The best vision language models (VLMs) for understanding images, documents and charts.

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What is the best Perplexity model for vision?

Sonar Reasoning Pro is the best vision-capable Perplexity model, pairing 17.8 intelligence with image and document understanding. Sonar (9.5) and Sonar Pro (9.3) round out the top three.

What's a good alternative to Sonar Reasoning Pro?

Sonar (9.5) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Sonar Pro (9.3). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.

How many Perplexity models are there?

modelgrep tracks 5 Perplexity models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Sonar Reasoning Pro. 4 of them qualify for this ranking.

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