Is Sonar Deep Research deprecated or retired?

Yes. Sonar Deep Research is Retired per Perplexity's own deprecation notice, retired on 2026-09-27. ModelPriceWatch last re-verified this status on 2026-10-05.

Is Sonar Deep Research deprecated?

Perplexity · lifecycle status verified Oct 5, 2026 against the provider's own page.

Yes — Sonar Deep Research is retired as of Sep 27, 2026. Perplexity no longer serves it on the endpoint we price. The prices below are kept for historical reference only.

Last verified pricing

historical reference — not a buy recommendation

Sonar Deep Research was last priced at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $8.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 200K-token context window. Full history stays on the Sonar Deep Research model page.

Picking a replacement

We don't hold a benchmark average for Sonar Deep Research, so we won't claim any model is "equivalent" to it. Compare live prices across every current model in the migration calculator.

Migrating off Sonar Deep Research? The migration calculator compares your exact input/output token mix against every current model we track, with benchmark tradeoffs. Lifecycle data on this page comes from Perplexity's own page and was last re-verified on Oct 5, 2026. See all retired & deprecated models.