Sonar Deep Research API Pricing
Sonar Deep Research costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $8.00 per 1M output tokens. Prices were last refreshed on from the AI Pricing Guru daily pricing pipeline.
Cost examples
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1M input + 1M output
$10.00
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.40
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$36.00
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
Not listed
Perplexity does not publish a cached-input rate for this model in our dataset.
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Input cost
$2.00
Output cost
$8.00
Total
$10.00
Price history
No list-price movement across 67 daily snapshots from 2026-04-23 to 2026-06-29.
When to use Sonar Deep Research
Good fit
- Perplexity workloads where this price tier and API surface fit your existing stack
Be careful with
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first