Sonar Pro Search vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: side-by-side summary

Sonar Pro Search and Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

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.

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct, from Qwen, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.13/M tokens input, $0.52/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Sonar Pro Search: 200,000 tokens
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 262,144 tokens

Price

• Sonar Pro Search: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: $0.13/M tokens input, $0.52/M tokens output

Provided by

• Sonar Pro Search: Perplexity
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: Qwen

• Sonar Pro Search model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct model details, providers and pricing