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Perplexity Academic Researcher

Sonar Reasoning Pro with Perplexity's academic search mode. Prioritizes scholarly and peer-reviewed sources from academic repositories and returns cited research synthesis.

Model facts

Context window
128K tokens
Maximum output
115K tokens
Cheapest paid input
$2 per 1M tokens
Cheapest paid output
$8 per 1M tokens
Open weights
no
Providers
1

Capabilities and modalities

reasoning, text.

Observed price history

  • 2026-08-24: $2 input / $8 output per 1M tokens

API providers

  • NanoGPT — model id perplexity-academic-researcher; $2 input / $8 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation