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Sonar Deep Research

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Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model designed for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics. It autonomously searches, reads, and evaluates so

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Sonar Deep Research

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model designed for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics. It autonomously searches, reads, and evaluates sources, refining its approach as it gathers...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `perplexity/sonar-deep-research`.

  • openrouter · perplexity/sonar-deep-research Docs

OpenRouter id: perplexity/sonar-deep-research

Notes

Sonar Deep Research is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Sonar Deep Research is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
108M ▼12.6%
Requests, last 7 days
9K
Tool calls, last 7 days
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Price per million tokens
$2 in · $8 out
025M50M19 Sept: 8.9M tokens, 820 requests20 Sept: 21.5M tokens, 1.4K requests21 Sept: 13.8M tokens, 941 requests22 Sept: 11.8M tokens, 804 requests23 Sept: 16.8M tokens, 1K requests24 Sept: 17.6M tokens, 1.1K requests25 Sept: 13.7M tokens, 866 requests26 Sept: 6.9M tokens, 504 requests27 Sept: 7.4M tokens, 530 requests28 Sept: 15.7M tokens, 1.1K requests29 Sept: 15.9M tokens, 981 requests30 Sept: 11.2M tokens, 787 requests1 Oct: 12M tokens, 880 requests2 Oct: 14.1M tokens, 966 requests3 Oct: 7.1M tokens, 480 requests4 Oct: 6.8M tokens, 528 requests5 Oct: 13.5M tokens, 856 requests6 Oct: 11.1M tokens, 768 requests7 Oct: 19M tokens, 1.2K requests8 Oct: 13.2M tokens, 905 requests9 Oct: 9.6M tokens, 710 requests10 Oct: 6M tokens, 487 requests11 Oct: 9M tokens, 608 requests12 Oct: 21.6M tokens, 1.3K requests13 Oct: 34.3M tokens, 1.8K requests14 Oct: 29.5M tokens, 1.6K requests15 Oct: 23.8M tokens, 1.5K requests16 Oct: 15.1M tokens, 1.1K requests17 Oct: 8.1M tokens, 912 requests18 Oct: 19.5M tokens, 1.9K requests19 Oct: 15.6M tokens, 1.2K requests20 Oct: 11.6M tokens, 1.1K requests21 Oct: 13.9M tokens, 1.2K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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