# Problems manually configuring perplexity sonar deep research

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**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [May 10, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-manually-configuring-perplexity-sonar-deep-research/365572 "2025-05-10T10:26:01Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-manually-configuring-perplexity-sonar-deep-research/365572/2 "2025-05-11T23:30:30Z")

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The API is very slow, but it appears to work, see:

> **[\[Untitled AI bot PM\] - AI Conversation - Sam Saffron's Blog](https://discuss.samsaffron.com/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai-conversations/4DN50hZGLHBput-cDSEahw)**
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> AI Conversation with Perplexity/sonar-deep-research:
> sam: who is sam saffron? creative\_bot: Sam Saffron: A Comprehensive Overview of His Career and Contributions to Technology
> Sam Saffron is a…

That said, the bug/issue here is that this is mostly useless till we parse the grounding links and citation urls, this is feasable, but not trivial:

 ![The image displays a structured data representation of a conversational transcript detailing citations and annotations related to Sam Saffron's work. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/8/f/a8fd2caaab1056f05d36c62b5e6106f8bb14f7f7.png)

Worth noting, that one reply linked cost me 70 cents! This is not a cheap model to say the least, I would be super careful with it.

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