Sonar Deep Research

Reasoning

Launch post Website

Sonar search model for autonomous research and citation-backed long-form reports

Context: 128K
Released: 1y ago
Input / 1M tokens: $2.00
Output / 1M tokens: $8.00

Sources:models.devOpenRouter

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.

No benchmark results have been matched to this model yet.

Specifications

Developer: Perplexity
Model family: Sonar
Type: Language model
Predecessor: —
Successor: —
Released: February 1, 2025
Model ID: perplexity/sonar-deep-research
Openness: Closed
License: —
Input modalities: text
Output modalities: text
Modality: text->text
Tokenizer: Other
Max output tokens: 115K
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-01
Hugging Face: —
Source freshness: Metadata synced Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

Additional source evidence

Source model: perplexity/sonar-deep-research
Source family: sonar
Last updated: 2025-09-01
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-01
Model context: 128K
Model output limit: 33K
Open weights: No
File attachments: No
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: No
Temperature control: No

Complete source record (JSON)

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Infrastructure

Provider availability

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Provider	Endpoint	Context	Input /M tokens	Output /M tokens	Cached input /M tokens	Cache write /M tokens	Uptime 1d	Data handling
Perplexity	perplexity	128K	$2.00	$8.00	—	—	75.00%	ZDR: Yes Training: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown ZDR source Privacy policy Checked 2026-10-15

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