Model comparison
o1 vs Sonar
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index. Sonar costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
PerplexitySummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 5 categories and Sonar in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where o1 leads 46.1 to 35.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 91.6% for o1 and 46.3% for Sonar.
- Sonar is cheaper at $1 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| o1 | Sonar | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | 38.5 |
| Released | 2024-09-12 | 2024-01-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 128K |
| Max output | 100K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $60 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 52 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding o1 leads
o1: 46.1 (#70), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 69.7% | 35.1% |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 47.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | — |
| CadEval | 56% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 80.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o1: 24.6 (#117), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 51.1% | — |
Reasoning o1 leads
o1: 27.9 (#111), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 91.6% | 46.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | 37.9% |
| LiveBench | 75.7% | 46.9% |
| SimpleBench | 41.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 30.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 15% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1371 | — |
| DTBench | 74.7% | — |
| LMCA | 22.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.91 | — |
Math o1 leads
o1: 36.1 (#175), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 80.3% | 41.6% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 14.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1388 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 94.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 9.3% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
o1: 41.5 (#110), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 11.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1361 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
o1: 34.2 (#93), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1168 | — |
| GeoBench | 80% | — |
| VPCT | 37% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 41.4% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
o1: 48.6 (#142), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1394 | — |
| LMArena French | 1344 | — |
| LMArena German | 1337 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1346 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1356 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1345 | — |
Instruction Following o1 leads
o1: 74.8 (#86), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | 76.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1367 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
o1: 50.3 (#9), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1378 | — |
Writing & Preference o1 leads
o1: 55.6 (#144), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | o1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Language | 65.4% | 44.1% |
| LMArena Text | 1366 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1348 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 70.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1369 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is o1 better than Sonar?
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index. Sonar costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, o1 or Sonar?
Sonar is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.
Is o1 or Sonar better for coding?
o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
o1 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do o1 and Sonar share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.