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.
| Sonar Deep Research perplexity/sonar-deep-research | Pixverse V6 pixverse/v6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Perplexity | PixVerse |
| Family | PixVerse | |
| Modality | text | video |
| Context window | 127,000 tok | — |
| Max output | 16,384 tok | — |
| Released | 2025-02-14 | 2026-04-15 |
| Input price | $2.00 /1M | $0.060 /sec |
| Output price | $8.00 /1M | — |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | — | — |
| Streaming | yes | — |
| Vision | — | — |
| JSON mode | — | — |
| Reasoning | yes | — |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research — long-form web-grounded answers.
Pixverse v6 is the latest Pixverse video model with support for up to 15-second videos, customizable duration from 1 to 15 seconds, and audio generation.
# 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 Sonar Deep Research
client.chat.completions.create(
model="perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Pixverse V6 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="pixverse/v6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)