Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Qwen 3.5 397B A17B alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b | Sonar Deep Research perplexity/sonar-deep-research | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba | Perplexity |
| Family | Qwen | |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 262,144 tok | 127,000 tok |
| Max output | 4,096 tok | 16,384 tok |
| Released | 2026-04-15 | 2025-02-14 |
| Input price | $0.600 /1M | $2.00 /1M |
| Output price | $3.60 /1M | $8.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | yes | — |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | — | — |
| JSON mode | yes | — |
| Reasoning | yes | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 is a 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters, offering strong reasoning capabilities with efficient inference.
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research — long-form web-grounded answers.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Sonar Deep Research — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)