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Sonar Reasoning Pro vs Sonar Deep Research

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.

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 Sonar Reasoning Pro
perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro
Sonar Deep Research
perplexity/sonar-deep-research
ProviderPerplexityPerplexity
Family
Modalitytexttext
Context window127,000 tok127,000 tok
Max output8,192 tok16,384 tok
Released2025-03-072025-02-14
Input price$2.00 /1M$2.00 /1M
Output price$8.00 /1M$8.00 /1M
Cache read
Tools
Streamingyesyes
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoningyesyes
Prompt caching
Sonar Reasoning Pro
perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro
Full spec →

Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro — search-augmented reasoning.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Sonar Deep Research
perplexity/sonar-deep-research
Full spec →

Perplexity Sonar Deep Research — long-form web-grounded answers.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# 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 Reasoning Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro",
    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"}],
)
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