Perplexity Sonar Deep Research: API pricing, providers and specs
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research is a text model by Perplexity. 3 providers serve it, from $8 to $8 /1M; the lowest price is at FastRouter.
How Perplexity Sonar Deep Research compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Pricey for its class: at $8 /1M, its lowest price is above 83% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 128K-token context window is larger than 12% of them (median 262K), about 190 pages of text.
- 3 providers serve it; 52% of comparable models have fewer.
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Helicone | $2/1M | From$8/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $2/1M | From$8/1M | — | 128K |
 FastRouter | $2/1M | $8/1M | — | 128K |
- FastRouter$8
- HeliconeFrom$8
- OpenRouterFrom$8
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Perplexity
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 128K≈ 190 pages of text
- Max output
- 115K
- Capabilities
- Reasoning
- Released
- Mar 7, 2025
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Perplexity Sonar Deep Research FAQ
The lowest price for Perplexity Sonar Deep Research is $8 /1M, at FastRouter.
FastRouter, at $8 /1M. 3 providers serve Perplexity Sonar Deep Research; the table above lists every one with its price.
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research reads up to 128K tokens per request and writes up to 115K.
No. Perplexity Sonar Deep Research is only available through an API; Perplexity does not publish its weights.
3 API providers serve Perplexity Sonar Deep Research. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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