Roundup
Best AI Models for Research
Long documents, citations and careful reasoning: the models we reach for when accuracy matters more than speed.
- Priced models
- 5
- Listed last 30d
- 0
- Cheapest
- $1.00
- Perplexity: Sonar
- Median blended
- $3.50
- USD per 1M
- Market median
- $0.806
- all providers
- Largest context
- 200K
- Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search
Catalogue
All Perplexity models
Newest listings first. Prices are USD per million tokens as listed on OpenRouter.
| Model | Input | Output | Blended | Context | Capabilities | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search perplexity/sonar-pro-search | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | 200K | ReasoningJSONImage | |
| Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro | $2.00 | $8.00 | $3.50 | 128K | ReasoningImage | |
| Perplexity: Sonar Pro perplexity/sonar-pro | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | 200K | Image | |
| Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research perplexity/sonar-deep-research | $2.00 | $8.00 | $3.50 | 128K | Reasoning | |
| Perplexity: Sonar perplexity/sonar | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | 127K | Image |
Capability chips reflect what the listing declares; absence is not evidence a feature is missing.
Analysis
Perplexity in our coverage
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