Sonar Deep Research API Pricing

Sonar Deep Research pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

Other Sonar Deep Research prices on Perplexity

What Sonar Deep Research costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

Sonar Deep Research features

• Reasoning
• Web search

Use Sonar Deep Research with LiteLLM

Call Sonar Deep Research through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: sonar-deep-research
    litellm_params:
      model: perplexity/sonar-deep-research
      api_key: os.environ/PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sonar-deep-research",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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