Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
sonar-deep-research- Released
- Not reported
- Version
- Sonar Deep Research
- License
- Unknown
PerplexitySonar Deep Research
Sonar Deep Research conducts exhaustive searches across hundreds of sources and synthesizes detailed reports.
- Token context
- 128K tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Not reported
Providers & Pricing
Estimate workload cost →| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 OpenrouterAvailable | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | Oct 19, 2026 | Provider-reported |
PerplexityAvailable | $2.00 | $8.00 | — | — | Aug 29, 2026 | Provider-reported |
| Provider | Price dimension | Amount | Unit | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search query | $5.00 | per 1,000 requests | Aug 29, 2026 | Provider-reported |
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Token context
- 128K tokens
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- Unknown
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Vision
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Capabilities
- chat, citations, reasoning, research, search
This page represents one developer model product. Dated API snapshots, serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach as versioned aliases or provider details and never create duplicate public model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasessonar-deep-research
Explicit Unknowns
- Release date
- Maximum output
- Architecture
- Tokenizer
- Knowledge cutoff
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
Comparable Peers
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Questions
Sonar Deep Research FAQs
What is Sonar Deep Research?+
Sonar Deep Research conducts exhaustive searches across hundreds of sources and synthesizes detailed reports. It is developed by Perplexity and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Sonar Deep Research support?+
Sonar Deep Research's current record lists Text as input and Text as output.
How much context does Sonar Deep Research support?+
The current record lists a 128K-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.
Is Sonar Deep Research available through an API?+
Sonar Deep Research is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Openrouter and Perplexity.
How much does Sonar Deep Research cost through an API?+
The lowest directly sourced prices currently attached to Sonar Deep Research are $2.00 per million input tokens through Openrouter and $8.00 per million output tokens through Openrouter. Prices are provider-specific and should be checked against each cited observation date.
What capabilities and tasks does Sonar Deep Research support?+
Sonar Deep Research's recorded capabilities are chat, citations, reasoning, research, and search. Its supported tasks are deep-research, reasoning, search, and text.
Can Sonar Deep Research be self-hosted?+
Sonar Deep Research is not marked as an open-weight model. Self-hosting is marked as unsupported, with no license recorded.
Does Sonar Deep Research have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are sonar-deep-research.
Which models can Sonar Deep Research be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes ERNIE 5.1, Sonar Pro, Solar Pro 4, ERNIE X1.1, and Command A Reasoning. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →
How current is the Model Markets record for Sonar Deep Research?+
Sonar Deep Research was last verified Aug 29, 2026 from Perplexity's primary source, “Sonar Deep Research | Perplexity.” The evidence is classified as official fact.