name = "Perplexity Sonar Deep Research"
description = "Sonar search model for current answers, retrieval, and citation-backed chat"
# Native exception (accessed 2026-06-25): `reasoning_effort` is minimal, low,
# medium, or high; no numeric reasoning-token budget is documented.
# https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/sonar-post
family = "sonar-deep-research"
release_date = "2025-01-27"
last_updated = "2025-01-27"
attachment = false
reasoning = true
reasoning_options = [{ type = "effort", values = ["minimal", "low", "medium", "high"] }]
temperature = true
tool_call = false
knowledge = "2025-01"
open_weights = false

[cost]
input = 2
output = 8

[limit]
context = 127000
output = 4096

[modalities]
input = ["text"]
output = ["text"]