Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research

Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research

perplexity · Released Mar 7, 2025
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Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model designed for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics. It autonomously searches, reads, and evaluates sources, refining its approach as it gathers information. This enables comprehensive report generation across domains like finance, technology, health, and current events. Notes on Pricing (Source) - Input tokens comprise of Prompt tokens (user prompt) + Citation tokens (these are processed tokens from running searches)
- Deep Research runs multiple searches to conduct exhaustive research. Searches are priced at $5/1000 searches. A request that does 30 searches will cost $0.15 in this step.
- Reasoning is a distinct step in Deep Research since it does extensive automated reasoning through all the material it gathers during its research phase. Reasoning tokens here are a bit different than the CoTs in the answer - these are tokens that we use to reason through the research material prior to generating the outputs via the CoTs. Reasoning tokens are priced at $3/1M tokens

$2.00 / 1M Input Price
$8.00 / 1M Output Price
128,000 tokens Context Window

Architecture

ModalityText → Text
TokenizerOther
Instruct Typedeepseek-r1

Model Information

OpenRouter ID perplexity/sonar-deep-research
Providerperplexity
Release Date March 7, 2025
Context Length128,000 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.00 $0.002000
Output $8.00 $0.008000

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

4,097ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
753 tok/s
Best Throughput
0/1
Active Endpoints
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