Perplexity Sonar Deep ResearchDeprecated
Perplexity · released 2025-02-01
The official API price of Perplexity Sonar Deep Research is $2 per 1M input tokens and $8 per 1M output tokens (as of 2026-11-12). Context window: 128K tokens, up to 32.8K output tokens per request. 5 providers sell it, none below the official price. This model is marked as deprecated.
Price by providerUSD per 1M tokens
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PerplexityOfficialDeprecatedsonar-deep-research | $2 | $8 | — | OfficialDeprecated | Official docs |
EEden AIperplexityai/ | $2 | $8 | — | Official docs | |
HHeliconesonar-deep-research | $2 | $8 | — | Official docs | |
LLLMTRperplexity/ | $2 | $8 | — | Official docs | |
SSAP AI Coresonar-deep-research | $2 | $8 | — | Official docs |
Providers are those listed by models.dev. This site has not vetted them one by one; each provider's own page has the binding price.
About
Sonar search model for current answers, retrieval, and citation-backed chat
Description from models.dev.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Context
- 128K
- Max output
- 32.8K
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- No
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- 2025-02-01
Source
Prices and specs come from models.dev (MIT licence), updated 2026-11-12. Each provider's name links to its official docs. A provider priced at 0 usually includes the model in a subscription; it is not necessarily a free API.