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Sonar Pro vs DeepSeek R1
Perplexity vs DeepSeek — head-to-head specs and pricing.
Perplexity
Sonar Pro
Online LLM with live citations.
Perplexity Sonar Pro — a chat model with live web search and inline source citations.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1
Reasoning model — rivals o1/o3 at 20x lower cost
DeepSeek-R1 is an open reasoning model from DeepSeek. Excels at math, coding, and step-by-step logic. Outputs include visible chain-of-thought. WARNING: Per DeepSeek ToS, prompts may be used for model training and are processed on servers in China. Not recommended for sensitive workloads.
| Spec | Sonar Pro | DeepSeek R1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Perplexity | DeepSeek |
| Input cost / 1M tokens | $3.60 | $0.66 |
| Output cost / 1M tokens | $18.00 | $2.63 |
| Context window | 200,000 tokens | 65,536 tokens |
| Max output tokens | — | 8,192 |
| Streaming support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tool calling | — | — |
| Vision input | — | — |
| JSON mode | — | ✓ |
| Status | ACTIVE | ACTIVE |
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