---
name: Perplexity Academic Researcher
slug: academic-researcher
type: LLM
providers:
  - nano-gpt
description: >-
  Sonar Reasoning Pro with Perplexity's academic search mode. Prioritizes
  scholarly and peer-reviewed sources from academic repositories and returns
  cited research synthesis.
tags:
  - reasoning
  - llm
is_open_source: false
context_window: 127000
max_output: 128000
pricing:
  - image: 0
    input: 2
    output: 8
    provider: nano-gpt
release_date: '2026-07-10'
capabilities:
  audio: false
  vision: false
  tool_use: false
  citations: false
  reasoning: true
---
Perplexity Academic Researcher is a LLM model.
Sonar Reasoning Pro with Perplexity's academic search mode. Prioritizes scholarly and peer-reviewed sources from academic repositories and returns cited research synthesis.