# GPT-4 Turbo vs Sonar

> Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-turbo-vs-sonar
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Sonar leads 33.7 to 9.0.
- Sonar is cheaper at $1 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 38.5 |
| Rank | 292 | 187 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $10 | $1 |
| Output $/M | $30 | $1 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)
- Sonar: 35.7 (#221)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 18% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4 Turbo: —
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)
- Sonar: 21.1 (#227)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |

## Math

- GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)
- Sonar: 33.7 (#200)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | 81.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1276 | — |
| LMArena German | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)
- Sonar: 71.4 (#150)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)
- Sonar: 52.6 (#167)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Sonar?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GPT-4 Turbo or Sonar?

Sonar is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

### Is GPT-4 Turbo or Sonar better for coding?

Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.