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Sonar Deep Research API pricing

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Multi-step search research. Sonar Deep Research by Perplexity, routed through INFRO on a Perplexity account you connect — alongside every other provider you run. Perplexity bills you for it directly, on that account and at your own rate. INFRO adds routing, failover, request logs, cost attribution and policy around it, and takes no part of what you pay Perplexity.

Pricing

Per 1M tokensUSD · updated 2026-10-05

Perplexity rate

$3.50

per 1M tokens, billed to you by Perplexity

INFRO adds

$0

0% markup on model spend

Per-token rates

$2.00 / 1M input tokens·$8.00 / 1M output tokens

The headline figure above is these two blended at a 3:1 input:output ratio, so one number is comparable across modalities. Your own ratio will move it.

Calling Sonar Deep Research

POST /v1/chat/completions
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["INFRO_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.infro.io/v1",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)

What this modality supports

  • Streaming
  • Tool calling
  • Structured outputs
  • Prompt caching

Frontier and open-weight language models behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Streaming, tool calling, structured outputs, and vision pass straight through — and prompt caching is priced at the provider's own cached rate.

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