Perplexity Sonar vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is 2.1× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 127K tokens.
- Sonar's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 92.9%.
- Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is the newer model (released 2025-07-23).
| Sonar | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Perplexity | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-01-27 | 2025-07-23 |
| Input / 1M | $1.00 | $0.30 |
| Output / 1M | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.10 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $1.00 | $0.475 |
| Context | 127K | 262K |
| Max output | 114K | 66K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 2 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 92.9% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
Sonar
$75.00 per month$2.50 per day
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
$33.00 per month$1.10 per day
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B saves $42.00 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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