Perplexity · current

Academic Researcher

Academic Researcher is attributed to Perplexity in the catalog. It accepts text input and produces text output. Reported capabilities include reasoning.

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Context

128K

Released

2026-07-10

Knowledge cutoff

Unknown

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NanoGPT

perplexity-academic-researcher

current

Input

Output

Cache

Context

128K

Max output

115K

Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: No
Structured output: No
Temperature: Unknown

Historical price

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Provider / API ID	Status	Context	Max output	Input	Output	Cache read	Reasoning	Tools	Structured	Temperature
NanoGPT perplexity-academic-researcher	currentHistorical price	128K	115K	$2	$8	$1	Yes	No	No	Unknown

Capabilities and limits

Input: text
Output: text
Max output: 115K
Weights: Unknown
Release: 2026-07-10
Knowledge cutoff: Unknown
Family: perplexity

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Model and price history

Price history (1 observations)

Date	Provider	Input / output
2026-09-09	NanoGPT	$2 / $8