Perplexity tiers

Name: Perplexity tiers
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Perplexity only: Sonar for everyday requests, Sonar Deep Research for moderate work, Sonar Pro Search for hard ones - with complexity rules and a cost-aware objective.

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Generated from the reference model catalogue (the OpenRouter listing) - regenerated daily as the line-up and prices change. Import it with registry://<slug>@<version> or osr stack apply; every target answers on https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 with your own key.

Perplexity tiers

Perplexity only: Sonar for everyday requests, Sonar Deep Research for moderate work, Sonar Pro Search for hard ones - with complexity rules and a cost-aware objective.

Targets

Sonar (Perplexity) - $1.00 in / $1.00 out per 1M tokens
Sonar Deep Research (Perplexity) - $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M tokens
Sonar Pro Search (Perplexity) - $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M tokens

2 routing rule(s); every target answers on https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 (OpenAI-compatible).

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Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

bash

osr stack plan registry://stack-perplexity@1.0.0 --registry https://api.opensmartroute.ai
osr stack apply registry://stack-perplexity@1.0.0 --registry https://api.opensmartroute.ai

stack-perplexity.stack.jsonjson

{
  "osr": "1",
  "kind": "stack",
  "name": "Perplexity tiers",
  "description": "Perplexity only: Sonar for everyday requests, Sonar Deep Research for moderate work, Sonar Pro Search for hard ones - with complexity rules and a cost-aware objective.",
  "targets": [
    {
      "ocm": "1",
      "id": "model-perplexity-sonar",
      "kind": "llm",
      "name": "Sonar",
      "description": "Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features...",
      "publisher": "Perplexity",
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "capabilities": {
        "domains": [
          "general"
        ],
        "tags": [
          "llm",
          "perplexity",
          "openrouter",
          "image",
          "models"
        ],
        "languages": [
          "en"
        ],
        "modalities": [
          "text",
          "image"
        ],
        "supports_tools": false,
        "supports_streaming": true,
        "context_window": 127072
      },
      "quality_prior": 0.6,
      "examples": [
        "Sonar is lightweight, affordable, fast, and simple to use — now featuring citations and the ability to customize sources. It is designed for companies seeking to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features..."
      ],
      "primary": false,
      "metadata": {
        "source": {
          "provider": "models",
          "ref": "1738013808",
          "url": "https://openrouter.ai/perplexity/sonar",
          "key": "perplexity/sonar",
          "catalogue": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
        },
        "model": "perplexity/sonar",
        "pricing": {
          "input_usd_per_1m": 1,
          "output_usd_per_1m": 1
        },
        "max_output_tokens": 114364,
        "output_modalities": [
          "text"
        ],
        "created": 1738013808
      },
      "cost": {
        "usd_per_1k_tokens": 0.001
      },
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "protocol": "openai",
          "url": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ocm": "1",
      "id": "model-perplexity-sonar-deep-research",
      "kind": "llm",
      "name": "Sonar Deep Research",
      "description": "Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model designed for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics. It autonomously searches, reads, and evaluates sources, refining its approach as it gathers...",
      "publisher": "Perplexity",
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "capabilities": {
        "domains": [
          "general"
        ],
        "tags": [
          "llm",
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          "openrouter",
          "reasoning",
          "models"
        ],
        "languages": [
          "en"
        ],
        "modalities": [
          "text"
        ],
        "supports_tools": false,
        "supports_streaming": true,
        "context_window": 128000
      },
      "quality_prior": 0.6,
      "examples": [
        "Sonar Deep Research is a research-focused model designed for multi-step retrieval, synthesis, and reasoning across complex topics. It autonomously searches, reads, and evaluates sources, refining its approach as it gathers..."
      ],
      "primary": false,
      "metadata": {
        "source": {
          "provider": "models",
          "ref": "1741311246",
          "url": "https://openrouter.ai/perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
          "key": "perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
          "catalogue": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
        },
        "model": "perplexity/sonar-deep-research",
        "pricing": {
          "input_usd_per_1m": 2,
          "output_usd_per_1m": 8
        },
        "max_output_tokens": 115200,
        "output_modalities": [
          "text"
        ],
        "reasoning": true,
        "created": 1741311246
      },
      "cost": {
        "usd_per_1k_tokens": 0.005
      },
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "protocol": "openai",
          "url": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ocm": "1",
      "id": "model-perplexity-sonar-pro-search",
      "kind": "llm",
      "name": "Sonar Pro Search",
      "description": "Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based...",
      "publisher": "Perplexity",
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "capabilities": {
        "domains": [
          "coding"
        ],
        "tags": [
          "llm",
          "perplexity",
          "openrouter",
          "reasoning",
          "image",
          "models"
        ],
        "languages": [
          "en"
        ],
        "modalities": [
          "text",
          "image"
        ],
        "supports_tools": false,
        "supports_streaming": true,
        "context_window": 200000
      },
      "quality_prior": 0.6,
      "examples": [
        "Exclusively available on the OpenRouter API, Sonar Pro's new Pro Search mode is Perplexity's most advanced agentic search system. It is designed for deeper reasoning and analysis. Pricing is based..."
      ],
      "primary": false,
      "metadata": {
        "source": {
          "provider": "models",
          "ref": "1761854366",
          "url": "https://openrouter.ai/perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
          "key": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
          "catalogue": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
        },
        "model": "perplexity/sonar-pro-search",
        "pricing": {
          "input_usd_per_1m": 3,
          "output_usd_per_1m": 15
        },
        "max_output_tokens": 8000,
        "output_modalities": [
          "text"
        ],
        "reasoning": true,
        "created": 1761854366
      },
      "cost": {
        "usd_per_1k_tokens": 0.009
      },
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "protocol": "openai",
          "url": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "rules": [
    {
      "name": "hard-to-strongest",
      "when": {
        "min_complexity": 0.7
      },
      "prefer": [
        "model-perplexity-sonar-pro-search"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "easy-stays-cheap",
      "when": {
        "max_complexity": 0.3
      },
      "avoid": [
        "model-perplexity-sonar-pro-search"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "objective": {
    "quality": 0.7,
    "cost": 0.8,
    "latency": 0.2
  },
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "catalogue-stacks",
      "path": "perplexity",
      "ref": "2026-09-19",
      "url": "https://openrouter.ai/perplexity",
      "key": "catalogue-stacks/perplexity",
      "catalogue": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
      "generated": true
    }
  }
}

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