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Start with Sonar and Sonar Deep Research, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.

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Sonar vs Sonar Deep Research

Live dataset updated 8/17/2026, 11:13:20 PM UTC

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Factual comparison of Sonar and Sonar Deep Research
Field
Sonar

Perplexity

ModelCap position#196#232
Index score9.60.0
EvidenceMeasured1 public benchmark observation across 1 boardEstimatedpublisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated
Input / 1M$1.00$2.00
Output / 1M$1.00$8.00
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context127K128K
Providers11
Weight accessAPI onlyAPI only

Decision facts

  • Sonar is #196; Sonar Deep Research is #232 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 9.6 for Sonar and 0.0 for Sonar Deep Research.
  • Evidence differs: Sonar is Measured; Sonar Deep Research is Estimated.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $1.00 for Sonar and $8.00 for Sonar Deep Research.
  • Published context is 127,072 tokens for Sonar and 128,000 for Sonar Deep Research.

These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.

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