MODEL PROOF
Sonar Deep Research
NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED
No independent LMArena score is published for this model.
Reasoning tokens are billed separately.
- Independent LMArena score
- Not independently rated
- Context window
- 128K
- Maximum output
- 115.2K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $2.00 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $8.00 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Perplexity: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $2.00/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $8.00/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | $3.00/M |
| Web search | $0.005/call |
Reasoning tokens are billed separately at $3.00/M, on top of output. Its share of your bill depends on the reasoning tokens used.
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexityperplexity Endpoint terms
| $2.00 | $8.00 | undeclared | 99.57% |
Independent scores
No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 128K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 115K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |
Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model designed for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics. It autonomously searches, reads, and evaluates sources, refining its approach as it gathers...
Questions this page answers
What does Sonar Deep Research cost?
$2.00/M in, $8.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Sonar Deep Research have an independent quality score?
Sonar Deep Research has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.
What beats Sonar Deep Research?
Sonar Deep Research has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Sonar Deep Research?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Does a missing score mean Sonar Deep Research scored zero?
Unrated is not a score of zero.
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