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Sonar Deep Research

Perplexity · Reasoning · 128K context · released Mar 7, 2025 · checked 2h ago

Ways to buy 1

Way to buyIn / out per 1M
Perplexity API
The lab's own API
$2 / $8List price

USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.

Through a gateway

Your own numbers

100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $360.00 direct.

A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway.

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About Sonar Deep Research

Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model designed for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics.

Takes text in and returns text. First listed Sep 26, 2026. Up to 115K output tokens. Blended price $3.5 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id sonar-deep-research.

Price history

$3$10Sep 26, 2026Output $8Input $2

List price since Sep 26, 2026, from daily reads of the OpenRouter catalog.

Questions

How much does Sonar Deep Research cost?

$2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Sonar Deep Research?

128K tokens, with up to 115K tokens of output.

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