Granite 4.0 Micro vs Sonar Pro Search

Compare Granite 4.0 Micro from ibm-granite and Sonar Pro Search from Perplexity on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the OpenRouter API.

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Sonar Pro Search: side-by-side summary

Granite 4.0 Micro and Sonar Pro Search are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Granite 4.0 Micro, from ibm-granite, has a 131,000-token context window and is priced at $0.017/M tokens input, $0.112/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Sonar Pro Search, from Perplexity, has a 200,000-token context window and is priced at $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

Granite 4.0 Micro: 131,000 tokens
Sonar Pro Search: 200,000 tokens

Price

Granite 4.0 Micro: $0.017/M tokens input, $0.112/M tokens output
Sonar Pro Search: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output

Provided by

Granite 4.0 Micro: ibm-granite
Sonar Pro Search: Perplexity

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Sonar Pro Search at a glance

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Sonar Pro Search comparison
Attribute	Granite 4.0 Micro	Sonar Pro Search
Input price	$0.017/M tokens	$3/M tokens
Output price	$0.112/M tokens	$15/M tokens
Context window	131,000 tokens	200,000 tokens
Intelligence Index	5.1	Not available
Coding Index	Not available	Not available
Agentic Index	Not available	Not available
Latency (p50)	0.63 s	8.98 s
Throughput (p50)	35.0 tok/s	46.5 tok/s

Benchmark data updated Oct 5, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro cheaper than Sonar Pro Search?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper than Sonar Pro Search on OpenRouter: Granite 4.0 Micro costs $0.017/M tokens input and $0.112/M tokens output, while Sonar Pro Search costs $3/M tokens input and $15/M tokens output.

Which has the longer context window, Granite 4.0 Micro or Sonar Pro Search?

Sonar Pro Search has the longer context window at 200,000 tokens, compared with 131,000 tokens for Granite 4.0 Micro.

Which is faster, Granite 4.0 Micro or Sonar Pro Search?

Sonar Pro Search is faster on OpenRouter, generating a median 46.5 tokens per second compared with 35.0 tokens per second for Granite 4.0 Micro.

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Sonar Pro Search

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Sonar Pro Search

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