Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Sonar Deep Research
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Sonar Deep Research by Perplexity? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 18 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM 127K context
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B98% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 9B97% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash96% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
GPT-5 Mini91% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 82%
o391% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 78 200K ctx 82%
GPT-5.291% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Mini91% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 53 1.0M ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Nano91% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 41 1.0M ctx 82%
o4 Mini91% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 70 200K ctx 82%
Gemini 2.0 Flash95% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 56 1.0M ctx 80%
GPT-5.4 Nano87% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 98%
Claude 3 Haiku86% CHEAPER
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 33 200K ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview84% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite84% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 80%
Jamba Mini93% CHEAPER
AI21 Labs
Larger contextSame category
$0.2 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 256K ctx 98%
o191% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Larger contextSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 71 200K ctx 82%
Qwen3.5 397b89% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Larger contextSame category
$0.172 in · $1.032 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 78%
Qwen3 Next 80B88% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Larger contextSame category
$0.15 in · $1.2 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 78%
Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.