Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryRazonamiento profundo

Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research es un modelo texto pensado para razonamiento y resolución de problemas. Combina razonamiento y planificación profundos, un contexto de 128K tokens y un perfil costo equilibrado para trabajar con fiabilidad en reasoning, analysis, and hard problem solving.

Input

$2.00/1M

Output

$8.00/1M

Cached

$0.50/1M

Batch

$1.00/1M

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Technical specifications

Sonar Deep Research at a glance.

Memory

128,000

tokens

Max reply

8,192

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

—

Released

Mar 2025

Training cutoff

Oct 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Sonar Deep Research

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.
  • You need tool-use / function calling for agent workflows.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Sonar Deep Research costs roughly $470 per month. Input is $2.00 /1M tokens and output is $8.00 /1M tokens.
Sonar Deep Research has a 128,000-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Sonar Deep Research supports deep step-by-step reasoning, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Sonar Deep Research was released in March 2025, with training data cut off around October 2024.
Models in a similar class include Sonar Reasoning Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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