Using Sonar Deep Research on OpenRouter

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call perplexity/sonar-deep-research — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $2.00/1M input, $8.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

About OpenRouter

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Pricing on OpenRouter

Capabilities

About Sonar Deep Research

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).