Granite 4.2 8B vs Sonar Pro Search: side-by-side summary

Granite 4.2 8B 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 4.2 8B, from ibm-granite, has a 131,072-token context window and is priced at $0.10/M tokens input, $0.15/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 4.2 8B: 131,072 tokens
• Sonar Pro Search: 200,000 tokens

Price

• Granite 4.2 8B: $0.10/M tokens input, $0.15/M tokens output
• Sonar Pro Search: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output

Provided by

• Granite 4.2 8B: ibm-granite
• Sonar Pro Search: Perplexity

• Granite 4.2 8B model details, providers and pricing
• Sonar Pro Search model details, providers and pricing