Sonar Deep Research
Sonar Deep Research is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Sonar
- Released
- 2025-03-07
- Context
- 128k
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Developing AI for complex problem-solving.
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter
About
Expert-level Perplexity research model conducting exhaustive multi-step searches and generating comprehensive reports. Additional fees: $5/1K searches, $2/MTok citations, $3/MTok reasoning tokens. Supports async API with 7-day TTL and reasoning_effort parameter (low/medium/high).
Sonar Deep Research is a proprietary model in the Sonar family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter and Perplexity Labs, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $2 input and $8 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Sonar Deep Research yet.
Top use-case fit
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $2.00 | $8.00 | Serverless |
| Perplexity Labs | $2.00 | $8.00 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Sonar Deep Research?
Sonar Deep Research has a context window of 128k tokens.
How much does Sonar Deep Research cost?
Sonar Deep Research is available at $2/1M input tokens through OpenRouter.
When was Sonar Deep Research released?
Sonar Deep Research was released on 2025-03-07.
Which providers offer Sonar Deep Research?
Sonar Deep Research is available from 2 providers: OpenRouter, Perplexity Labs.
Developing AI for complex problem-solving.
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter