The retained Sonar pricing route now serves current Agent/Orchestrator billing documentation without this exact Sonar rate. A migration guide does not verify the old endpoint’s price or retirement; retained token rates are historical.
Current price verification is unresolved or overdue. These are the last recorded rates; check the official source before budgeting. We do not relabel an old check with today's build date.
Sonar Deep Research API Pricing
The retained Sonar pricing route now serves current Agent/Orchestrator billing documentation without this exact Sonar rate. A migration guide does not verify the old endpoint’s price or retirement; retained token rates are historical. No directly comparable current token quote is available. These rates were last verified on .
The retained Sonar pricing route now serves current Agent/Orchestrator billing documentation without this exact Sonar rate. A migration guide does not verify the old endpoint’s price or retirement; retained token rates are historical.
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
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Verified 2026-08-12 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
The retained Sonar pricing route now serves current Agent/Orchestrator billing documentation without this exact Sonar rate. A migration guide does not verify the old endpoint’s price or retirement; retained token rates are historical.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
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A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
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A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
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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.
Calculator for Sonar Deep Research
Enter your own input, output, and cached-token assumptions. This calculator is preloaded with only Sonar Deep Research, so the result stays focused on this model.
The retained Sonar pricing route now serves current Agent/Orchestrator billing documentation without this exact Sonar rate. A migration guide does not verify the old endpoint’s price or retirement; retained token rates are historical. Token-only calculation unavailable.
Price history
No list-price movement across 202 daily snapshots from 2026-04-23 to 2026-11-11.
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