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Sonar Deep Research
Perplexity · Released Mar 2025
A research-focused model from Perplexity that autonomously searches, retrieves, and synthesizes information across complex topics with a 128k token context window.
- Strengths
- Excels at multi-step reasoning and source evaluation, refining its research approach iteratively to build comprehensive answers across interconnected topics.
- Best for
- In-depth research queries, literature synthesis, and problem-solving that require gathering and integrating information from multiple sources.
- Limitations
- Designed for research workflows rather than real-time response speed, and may not be optimal for simple factual lookups or tasks requiring minimal context.
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
Cached input / 1M
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Context window
128K
Price history
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2026 | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |