Sonar Reasoning Pro with Perplexity's academic search mode. Prioritizes scholarly and peer-reviewed sources from academic repositories and returns cited research synthesis.
Added Jul 10, 2026
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127.0K
Max Output
128.0K
Avg output tokens (7d)
1.6K tokens
Input Price (Auto)
$2.00/1M
Output Price (Auto)
$8.00/1M
Cache Read (Auto)
$1.00/1M
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