Perplexity AI
Perplexity
AI answer engine that cites sources and can orchestrate multiple frontier models.
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Perplexity is an AI-powered research and answer engine that returns cited, sourced answers rather than a single generated block of text, and can route a query across multiple third-party AI models (from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others) as well as its own in-house model.
Visit official siteUse cases & fit
Primary use cases
- Research questions that benefit from inline citations
- Market/competitive research and data lookups
- Building small personalized apps/documents via its "Computer" feature (Pro and Max)
Best for
- Individuals and researchers who want cited, verifiable answers rather than an uncited chat response
- People who want to compare answers across multiple AI models without subscribing to each separately
Core capabilities
- Cited, sourced answers with inline references
- Access to multiple third-party frontier models (routing varies by plan)
- "Computer" feature for building small apps, docs, and tools from a prompt
- Deep research mode
Pricing
- Pro
- $17/monthbilled annually
- Max
- $167/monthbilled annually
Free plan: Yes
Free trial: Unclear from official source
The Pro plan page references "Everything in Free", confirming a free tier exists, but this fetch did not surface the Free tier's own pricing/limits page or confirm whether a time-limited trial of Pro exists — flagged rather than guessed.
The official pricing page (perplexity.ai/pricing) returned a 404 at verification time; figures above are from perplexity.ai/pro instead, which only shows annually-billed monthly-equivalent prices — a separate monthly (non-annual) price, if one exists, was not captured.
Limitations worth knowing
- Official /pricing URL was unreachable (404) at verification time; this entry is sourced from the /pro page instead and should be re-checked next cycle.(Perplexity Pro (official))
- Free-tier specific limits were not captured from the fetched source.(Perplexity Pro (official))
Sources
- Perplexity Pro (official)
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