Perplexity Pricing
- AI pricing
- $20/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Perplexity pricing starts at $20 a month, which is $240 over twelve months. There is a free plan.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
Perplexity pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $20 a month, or $240 a year |
| How that is reached | Pro at $20 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 19 August 2026 |
Every Perplexity plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. Charged as freemium. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | Limited Pro searches per day, standard model access |
| Pro | $20 | per month | Higher limits, model choice and file uploads. The pricing page published a single monthly rate when read on 19 August 2026, having previously shown an annual one |
| Max | $200 | per month | Maximum usage and 10,000 monthly credits |
| Enterprise | Custom | Negotiated | Team administration, data controls and internal knowledge search |
What Perplexity actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | per month | $20 | $240 |
| Max | per month | $200 | $2,400 |
Cancelling Perplexity, and getting money back
Read from the published Perplexity terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| When you cancel | The subscription renews on its original billing date, monthly or annual, until you set it to cancel. Where you cancel depends on where you subscribed: the settings page on the web, the App Store on iOS, Google Play on Android. |
|---|---|
| Changing mid-term | Deleting the account does not end the subscription. Perplexity's own help centre says to cancel first, otherwise the billing continues against a deleted account. |
Perplexity help centre, cancelling a subscription ↗ · read 18 September 2026
Perplexity pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Perplexity |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | $8 a month | Yes | −$12 a month (−60%) |
| Claude | $17 a month | Yes | −$3 a month (−15%) |
| Perplexity | $20 a month | Yes | This product |
Which Perplexity plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You want cited answers occasionally | Free | Limited Pro searches a day. Enough to see whether the citation habit suits you. |
| You research daily and want to check sources | Pro | $20 a month, with higher limits, model choice and file uploads. |
| You run very heavy research volumes | Max | $200 a month. Only justified by genuinely constant use. |
| Your team needs shared administration and internal search | Enterprise | Quote only, adding data controls and internal knowledge search. |
| You mainly want to draft and edit writing | Consider ChatGPT or Claude instead | Perplexity is an answer engine. Assistants are better at producing text. |
| You will not open the citations | Do not buy Perplexity | The citations are the product. Without checking them you have an assistant that is worse at writing. |
Why we recommend it as a research instrument
Anyone publishing software information now has a commercial interest in how AI answers pick sources. Perplexity is the cheapest way to observe that directly: ask it the questions your buyers ask, then read which pages it cited and what it quoted from them.
The pattern is consistent and instructive. Short factual statements, tables, explicit prices, named people and clear dates get quoted. Long narrative paragraphs get ignored. That observation shaped how this site structures its own pages, which is a disclosure as much as a recommendation.
Citations are a starting point, not a guarantee
An inline citation tells you where a claim came from. It does not tell you the source was right, current, or representative. Perplexity will confidently summarise a page that is three years out of date or a forum post stating something incorrectly, and the citation makes that feel more authoritative rather than less.
The correct habit is to treat cited answers as a fast route to the primary sources, then read them.
Pro or free?
Free is enough to understand the product and do occasional research. Pro at $20 a month raises the limits, allows model selection and adds file analysis, which matters if this is a daily working tool. Max at $200 a month is aimed at very heavy users and is difficult to justify unless Deep Research is central to your job.
One correction worth recording: this profile previously published Pro at $17 a month billed annually, from a page that then showed only an annual rate. Read on 19 August 2026, the pricing page publishes a single monthly figure of $20, and Max at $200. The plan names are still set as images rather than text, so they cannot be read from a page fetch.
Where the assistants are better
For drafting, editing, coding or anything conversational over long documents, ChatGPT and Claude are stronger products. Perplexity is a search tool that writes, not a writing tool that searches, and the distinction is worth keeping in mind when deciding which subscription to hold.
Perplexity questions, answered
- Does Perplexity have a free plan or free trial?
- Perplexity has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- Can I self-host Perplexity?
- No. Perplexity is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used Perplexity. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from one primary source , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.
Desk research from Perplexity's own pricing page, read on 19 August 2026 through a United States egress. Nobody here has used Perplexity for a documented test, and no answer accuracy was assessed. The plan names are rendered as images rather than text, so they cannot be read from a page fetch; the prices can.
Where Perplexity appears on this site
- Another profile DeepSeek picks it for cited answers for research
- Another profile Grok picks it for answers with citations you can open
- Another profile Mistral picks it for answers with sources you can open
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
Provenance and freshness
What has changed
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August 2026
- Corrected Pro to $20 a month and Max to $200. The page now publishes a single monthly rate where it previously showed an annual one, and this profile had kept the annual figures
- Recorded that the plan names are still rendered as images and cannot be read from a fetch
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August 2026
- Pricing verified, annual and monthly
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Perplexity plans - checked 19 August 2026
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