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Sonar Deep Research

by Perplexity

Current reasoning mid tier

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 Jun 25, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-09

Overview

Deep research model. $2/$8 per 1M, citations $2/1M, search $5/1K, reasoning $3/1M.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
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 Jul 18, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Perplexity
Context window
200K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Apr 1, 2025
Status
Current
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
Tags
reasoningsearchresearch

Availability verified: Aug 9, 2026 — listed on Perplexity's own page