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| 2 models | perplexityPerplexity: Sonar ProRemove × | assemblyaiAssemblyAI: Universal-3.5 ProRemove × |
|---|---|---|
| What’s different | Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See details here For enterprises seeking more advanced capabilities, the Sonar Pro API can handle in-depth, multi-step queries with added… | Universal-3.5 Pro is AssemblyAI's speech-to-text model served through its Sync API, returning a complete transcript with word-level timestamps in a single synchronous response for audio clips up to 120… |
| Date | Mar 7, 2025Listed | Sep 22, 2026Listed |
API prices USD · provider configuration shown below | ||
| Listed rate | $3.00 in / $15.00 out/ 1M tokensPerplexity · via OpenRouter · all routes ↗perplexity | $83.3333 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokensOpenRouter · all routes ↗ |
| Provider endpoints | 2 endpoints → | 1 endpoint → |
Benchmarks Each result retains its evaluation configuration | ||
| AMI-Cleaned WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 10.63% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| Earnings22-Cleaned-AA-chunked WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 6.05% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| Gigaspeech-Cleaned WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 7.62% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| LS Clean WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 1.1% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| LS Other WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 2.11% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| SPGISpeech WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 1.81% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| URGENT2024 WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 9.08% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| Voice Arena Monsoon WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 3.49% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
| Voxpopuli-AA-Cleaned WER ↗English short-form; normalization unversioned | Not reported | 1.92% WER ↗assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry |
Specifications | ||
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Image input | Supported | Not reported |
| Audio input | Not reported | Supported |
| Transcription | Not reported | Supported |