Perplexity Sonar Deep Research

by Perplexity

Sonar Deep Research is Perplexity's most comprehensive research model, built for expert-level analysis that requires exhaustive information synthesis. It runs many iterative web searches across hundreds of sources, applies reasoning tokens for complex analytical thinking, and synthesizes findings into detailed, citation-backed reports. The model autonomously plans its research strategy, evaluates results, and refines its approach before generating structured long-form output. It is purpose-built for academic research, market analysis, competitive intelligence, due diligence, and literature reviews where source accountability and comprehensive coverage matter most. It produces extensive citations and longer, more structured responses than lighter search variants. Because it performs live web searches at inference time, it can access and cite information published after its February 2025 training cutoff.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
128K
Max output
8K
Input price
$2.00 /1M
Output price
$8.00 /1M
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

Perplexity Sonar Deep Research runs on 1 route through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USZero data retentionNo$2.00$8.00

Uptime and availability

Perplexity Sonar Deep Research runs on a single route through the qynio gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

99.57%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. .

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider qynio monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Perplexity Sonar Deep Research has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

Perplexity β€” United StatesπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go β€” no action required. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
wallets

Get started

Call Perplexity Sonar Deep Research through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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