Perplexity Sonar Deep Research
by PerplexityChat
Sonar search model for current answers, retrieval, and citation-backed chat
- Context
- 128K tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Released
- 2025-02-01
- Weights
- Closed
perplexity/sonar-deep-research · also seen as perplexityai/sonar-deep-research
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-02-01
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 128,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 32,768
- Providers
- 2 + 5 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $2.00 in · $8.00 out per 1M tokens · across all 2 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-09-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web search
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M tokens at Perplexity on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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