Sonar Deep Research vs Sonar Pro

Live API pricing and availability, side by side. Both models run on FastInfra's OpenAI-compatible endpoint — switching between them is a one-line change.

Pricing

Price per 1M tokens

Prices are live and sync automatically from wholesale providers.

Sonar Deep Research Sonar Pro
Input $2.10 $3.15
Output $8.40 $15.75
Default provider OpenRouter OpenRouter
Providers available 1 1

On input tokens, Sonar Deep Research is currently 1.5× cheaper than Sonar Pro on FastInfra. Output-token pricing and quality trade-offs differ per workload — test both with the free tier.

Quickstart

Try both in 30 seconds

Same endpoint, same SDK — only the model string changes.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.fastinfra.ai/v1")

for model in ["perplexity/sonar-deep-research", "perplexity/sonar-pro"]:
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model,
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
    )
    print(model, "->", response.choices[0].message.content)