AI model comparison

Sonar Pro vs Mistral Large 2407

Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.

perplexity logo

Perplexity

Sonar Pro

Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing.

Input / 1M
$3
Output / 1M
$15
Context
200K

This is Mistral AI's flagship model, Mistral Large 2 (version mistral-large-2407). It's a proprietary weights-available model and excels at reasoning, code, JSON, chat, and more.

Input / 1M
$2
Output / 1M
$6
Context
131K

At a glance

Quick verdict

How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.

Lower price

mistralai logo

Mistral Large 2407

1.9x cheaper for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

Tie

7.6 vs 7.6 on Artificial Analysis

Larger context window

perplexity logo

Sonar Pro

200K vs 131K tokens

Newer release

perplexity logo

Sonar Pro

Released March 7, 2025

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index

perplexity logoSonar Pro7.6
mistralai logoMistral Large 24077.6

Coding index

perplexity logoSonar ProNot available
mistralai logoMistral Large 2407Not available

Agentic index

perplexity logoSonar ProNot available
mistralai logoMistral Large 2407Not available

Pricing

Sonar Pro vs Mistral Large 2407 API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricperplexity logoSonar Promistralai logoMistral Large 2407
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$3$2
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$15$6
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokensNot available$0.20
Cache writePer 1M tokensNot availableNot available
Web searchPer request$0.005Not available

What it costs in practice

Estimated cost per 1,000 requests at standard rates. Coding and long-document figures also show the cost when the input is already cached.

Chat message

2K in, 500 out

perplexity logoSonar Pro$13.50
mistralai logoMistral Large 2407$7

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

perplexity logoSonar Pro$150
mistralai logoMistral Large 2407$84$30 cached

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

perplexity logoSonar Pro$480
mistralai logoMistral Large 2407$312$42 cached

Specs

Context window and capabilities

How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.

Metricperplexity logoSonar Promistralai logoMistral Large 2407
Context window200K tokens131K tokens
Max output8K tokens105K tokens
Input typesImage, TextFile, Text
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsNot availableNot available
Default reasoning effortNot availableNot available
Release dateMarch 7, 2025November 19, 2024

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricperplexity logoSonar Promistralai logoMistral Large 2407
Tool callingNot supportedSupported
Structured outputsNot supportedSupported
JSON modeNot supportedSupported
ReasoningNot supportedNot supported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesNot supportedSupported
Deterministic seedNot supportedSupported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

Mistral Large 2407 is 1.9x cheaper for a typical chat. Sonar Pro has the larger context window (200K vs 131K tokens). The right pick depends on your workload, so the quickest way to settle it is to send the same prompt to both and compare.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Sonar Pro or Mistral Large 2407 cheaper?

Mistral Large 2407 is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Mistral Large 2407 costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens, while Sonar Pro costs $3 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, Sonar Pro or Mistral Large 2407?

Sonar Pro supports up to 200K tokens of context, compared with 131K for Mistral Large 2407.

Is Sonar Pro smarter than Mistral Large 2407?

On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Sonar Pro scores 7.6 and Mistral Large 2407 scores 7.6, putting Sonar Pro ahead. Benchmarks don't capture everything, so the best test is running your own prompts through both.

Can I use Sonar Pro and Mistral Large 2407 at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Sonar Pro and Mistral Large 2407 answer side by side and keep the better response.

perplexity logomistralai logo

Why choose? Ask both.

Send one prompt to Sonar Pro and Mistral Large 2407 at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.