Perplexity
The AI answer engine that cites its sources and pulls from GPT, Claude, and Gemini all in one place.
Our verdict
The AI search engine to reach for when you actually want to check the sources, not just take its word for it.
How we rated it
Overall 4.2 / 5
Features4.5
Ease of use4.4
Value for money4.1
Support3.6
Compliance4.3
Pricing
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Free
Free
Search-only access with real citations, no card required.
- Good for limited daily searches
- Citations in every answer
- Access to basic AI models
- Better for simple, quick questions
Pro
Popular$20/mo
The plan most regular users land on. $200/year if billed annually.
- Unlimited Pro Search with source-rich, multi-step answers
- Deep Research with up to 20 queries a day
- Access to top AI models, with the option to pick one yourself
- Expanded Perplexity Computer access for building documents and apps
- Higher usage limits and memory than Free
Max
$200/mo
For people who want the highest limits and the most advanced models with no compromises.
- Everything in Pro, with the highest usage limits
- Maximum Perplexity Computer usage
- Expert-level research depth
- Access to frontier AI reasoning models
- Priority access to new features
Enterprise Pro
$34/mo
Team plan with the security controls IT expects. Price shown is per seat, billed annually.
- Everything in Pro, for your whole team
- Search across the web, your files, and your apps
- Guaranteed no training on your data
- SSO and user permission management
- SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS compliance
Enterprise Max
$271/mo
For the hardest research problems at scale. Price shown is per seat, billed annually.
- Everything in Enterprise Pro, with much higher limits
- The most advanced AI reasoning models available
- Deep investigations across massive datasets and files
- SCIM, audit logs, and custom data retention settings
- Priority access to new features
Features
- Every answer comes with inline citations, so you can see exactly which sources back up each claim
- Routes each question to whichever top AI model, GPT, Claude, Gemini, or its own models, fits best, instead of locking you into just one
- Deep Research digs through many sources and puts together a full, cited report on its own
- Comet is Perplexity's own AI browser that can search, summarize, and take action on your behalf while you browse
- Connects to 400+ apps and tools on paid plans, so it can search across your files and work apps too
- Pulls in premium data sources like PitchBook and Statista for finance and market research
- Can generate documents, spreadsheets, and other finished assets, not just chat replies
- Model Council on higher tiers runs a question through several AI models at once and compares the answers
