OpenAI o4 Mini High vs Sonar Pro Search
Compare OpenAI o4 Mini High by OpenAI against Sonar Pro Search by Perplexity, context windows of 200K vs 200K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Sonar Pro Search
OpenAI o4 Mini HighRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Sonar Pro Search has the edge — bigger model tier, newer.
OpenAI o4 Mini High is 3.4x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
OpenAI o4 Mini High
Input
$1.10
2.7× cheaper
Output
$4.40
3.4× cheaper
Sonar Pro Search
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
OpenAI o4 Mini High is cheaper on both — 2.7× input, 3.4× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
52%
Sonar Pro Search uses 268.7x more bold
OpenAI o4 Mini High
Sonar Pro Search
70%Vocabulary60%
18wSentence Length22w
0.33Hedging0.30
0.0Bold2.7
1.3Lists2.6
0.02Emoji0.00
0.00Headings2.08
0.04Transitions0.07
Based on 14 + 25 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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