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Sonar Deep Research

by Perplexity

Retired reasoning mid tier
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Retired on . No longer served on the endpoint we price — the figures below are kept for historical reference only. Full retirement status & replacements →
Availability: Perplexity ended support for Sonar Chat Completions on 2026-09-27 and moved it to its Agent API. Its pricing page no longer lists a Sonar Deep Research rate (read 2026-10-05); requests that still use the old model name are being rerouted to the Agent API, which bills differently. OpenRouter still lists Sonar Deep Research at $2/$8 per 1M tokens, but that is a reseller listing — the price above is what the model last cost from Perplexity, not a rate Perplexity sells today.

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$8.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$3.50

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Source: official Perplexity pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-10-08

Price receipt

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Overview

Deep research model. $2/$8 per 1M, citations $2/1M, search $5/1K, reasoning $3/1M. Perplexity ended support for it on 2026-09-27; the price shown is what it last cost, not a rate you can buy today.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/4
Text ✓ Image Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 3/9
Prompt caching Reasoning ✓ Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal Web search ✓ Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Humanity's Last Exam vendor
21.1%

Every per-benchmark score we hold for this model is reported by its own vendor, so none is counted toward an accuracy average or any ranking.

Source: Perplexity announcement (Deep Research agent) · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Perplexity
Context window
200K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Status
Retired ended
Last updated
Tags
reasoningsearchresearchretired

Availability verified: — per Perplexity's own deprecation notice

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