Perplexity pricing for free and Pro users
What Perplexity costs and what you get at each level
Last pricing check 2026-10-26 Partial review
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- ChatGPT Plus is $20/month; Pro tiers are $100/$200/$500 per month. Compare named plans and billing cadence.
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- Creative writing
- Image generation
- Long-form content creation
Research assistant that shows its work. Great value at $20/mo.
| Plan | Price | What You Get | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Free access with limited usage. | See the official plan details |
| Pro | $20/month or $200/year (displayed rounded $17/month equivalent)Annual option: $200/year · $17/month equivalent | Official hub publishes $20/month or $200/year for Pro. The public annual card rounds the monthly equivalent to $17; the explicit $200 annual price is not inferred from that rounded equivalent. | See the official plan details |
| Max | $200/month or $2,000/year (annual billing web-only; displayed rounded $167/month equivalent)Annual option: $2000/year · $167/month equivalent | Max FAQ publishes $200/month or $2,000/year. Annual billing is available only in the web app. The public annual card rounds the monthly equivalent to $167; it is not the basis for invoice arithmetic. | See the official plan details |
| Enterprise Pro | From $40/seat/month or $400/seat/year (guide); public annual card rounds to $34/seat/month equivalentAnnual option: $400/year · $34/month equivalent | Official plan guide publishes starting at $40/month or $400/year per seat. Separate public annual card displays $34/seat/month equivalent. Guide list prices are published; selected checkout offer and taxes are not verified. | See the official plan details |
| Enterprise Max | $325/seat/month or $3,250/seat/year (public card rounds annual equivalent to $271/month)Annual option: $3250/year · $271/month equivalent | Enterprise Max help publishes $325/month or $3,250/year per seat. The separate public card rounds the annual monthly equivalent to $271; do not multiply that into an invoice. | See the official plan details |
| Enterprise Custom | Contact sales | Custom pricing for organizations requiring additional security and governance. | See the official plan details |
| Education Pro | $10/month with SheerID verification | Student/educator eligibility requires SheerID verification. Annual price is unknown. | Verified students and educators |
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Last pricing check: 2026-10-26; Partial review. Field-scoped official pricing/billing review; unconfirmed fields and older evidence remain explicit. Not blanket price certification. Baseline evidence date: 2026-09-19. Prices and eligibility can change; consult the official sources before buying.
Free plan and entry cost
Perplexity Free costs $0 and provides limited use of core search features. The current pricing page does not publish a fixed monthly request allowance.
How to read the total cost
- Billing and usagePro costs $20/month or $200/year; the public card displays a rounded $17/month equivalent billed annually. Max costs $200/month or $2,000/year; annual billing is web-only. Enterprise Pro guide starts at $40/seat/month or $400/seat/year; public card rounds to $34/month equivalent. Enterprise Max costs $325/seat/month or $3,250/seat/year; public card rounds to $271/month equivalent. Rounded equivalents are not invoice arithmetic. Education Pro is $10/month with SheerID verification; Enterprise Custom requires sales contact.
- Enterprise Pro price scopeOfficial plan guide publishes starting at $40/month or $400/year per seat. Separate public annual card displays $34/seat/month equivalent. Guide list prices are published; selected checkout offer and taxes are not verified.
- API rate scopeRouter is in private preview; access required. Router has no per-request fee and bills at the requested model rates; reasoning uses output rates. Cache writes use input rates where no dedicated rate is listed; Router GLM 5.3 Flash has no cache writes. Agent default rates above differ from direct-provider rates (notably Gemini 3.6). Agent optional flex is 0.5× and priority/fast 2× listed token rates only on supported models; unsupported tiers fall back to default. Anthropic Agent requests require max_output_tokens. Context boundaries apply as displayed. Current Agent perplexity/sonar is separate from legacy Sonar endpoints, whose rates remain unavailable. Tool/request/session/embedding charges use the explicit units below; no complimentary API credits with subscriptions.
Price History
No independently verified historical price changes are recorded for Perplexity yet.
Price Trend by Plan
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Your plan
Official hub publishes $20/month or $200/year for Pro. The public annual card rounds the monthly equivalent to $17; the explicit $200 annual price is not inferred from that rounded equivalent.
Extra monthly cost
Add a total for the whole stack, not a per-seat price. Use your own estimate or quote; this cost is not verified.
Monthly total$20.00
Cost per subscription$20.00
12-month projection$240.00
Projected from monthly payments, not an annual invoice.
Breakdown$20.00 plan × 1 subscription + $0.00 additional costs
Annual and quarterly billing show a monthly average. Extra costs and custom quotes are your estimate.
How this estimate works
Extra costs are your total estimate for the whole stack. Per-unit cost divides that total across the selected quantity; dedicated member and add-on pricing is not modelled.
Subscription vs API
The separately billed API Platform is pay-as-you-go. The official plan guide states there are no complimentary API credits. A web subscription does not include programmatic model access.
| Model | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Router: perplexity/kimi-k3 | $3 | $0.3 | $3 | $15 |
| Router: perplexity/glm-5.3 | $1.4 | $0.26 | $1.4 | $4.4 |
| Router: perplexity/glm-5.3-flash | $0.15 | $0.03 | Not listed | $0.5 |
| Router: perplexity/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | $0.25 | $0.25 | $0.25 | $2.5 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-fable-5 | $10 | $1 | Not listed | $50 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-fable-5-1 | $10 | $0.25 | Not listed | $50 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-opus-5-5 | $4 | $0.2 | Not listed | $20 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-opus-5 | $5 | $0.5 | Not listed | $25 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 | $5 | $0.5 | Not listed | $25 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-opus-4-7 | $5 | $0.5 | Not listed | $25 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 | $5 | $0.5 | Not listed | $25 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-opus-4-5 | $5 | $0.5 | Not listed | $25 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5 | $2 | $0.2 | Not listed | $10 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | $2 | $0.2 | Not listed | $10 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | $3 | $0.3 | Not listed | $15 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5 | $3 | $0.3 | Not listed | $15 |
| Agent: anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 | $1 | $0.1 | Not listed | $5 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-6.1-sol (≤272k) | $2 | $0.1 | Not listed | $10 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-6.1-sol (>272k) | $4 | $0.2 | Not listed | $15 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-6-sol (≤272k) | $2 | $0.2 | Not listed | $10 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-6-sol (>272k) | $4 | $0.4 | Not listed | $15 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-6-luna (≤272k) | $0.1 | $0.01 | Not listed | $0.5 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-6-luna (>272k) | $0.2 | $0.02 | Not listed | $0.75 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.6-sol (≤272k) | $4 | $0.4 | Not listed | $20 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.6-sol (>272k) | $8 | $0.8 | Not listed | $30 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.6-terra (≤272k) | $2 | $0.2 | Not listed | $12 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.6-terra (>272k) | $4 | $0.4 | Not listed | $18 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.6-luna (≤272k) | $0.2 | $0.02 | Not listed | $1.2 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.6-luna (>272k) | $0.4 | $0.04 | Not listed | $1.8 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.5 (≤272k) | $5 | $0.5 | Not listed | $30 |
| Agent: openai/gpt-5.5 (>272k) | $10 | $0.5 | Not listed | $45 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview (≤200k) | $2 | $0.2 | Not listed | $12 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview (>200k) | $4 | $0.4 | Not listed | $18 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite | $0.25 | $0.025 | Not listed | $1.5 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.5-flash | $1.5 | $0.15 | Not listed | $9 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite | $0.3 | $0.03 | Not listed | $2.5 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.6-flash | $1.5 | $0.15 | Not listed | $7.5 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.7-flash | $0.75 | $0.075 | Not listed | $3.75 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3.8-flash | $0.75 | $0.075 | Not listed | $3.75 |
| Agent: google/gemini-3-flash-preview | $0.5 | $0.05 | Not listed | $3 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.7 (<200k) | $2 | $0.5 | Not listed | $6 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.7 (≥200k) | $4 | $1 | Not listed | $12 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.6 (<200k) | $2 | $0.5 | Not listed | $6 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.6 (≥200k) | $4 | $1 | Not listed | $12 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.5 (<200k) | $2 | $0.3 | Not listed | $6 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.5 (≥200k) | $4 | $0.6 | Not listed | $12 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.3 (<200k) | $1.25 | $0.2 | Not listed | $2.5 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.3 (≥200k) | $2.5 | $0.2 | Not listed | $5 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.20-reasoning (<200k) | $1.25 | $0.2 | Not listed | $2.5 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.20-reasoning (≥200k) | $2.5 | $0.2 | Not listed | $5 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning (<200k) | $1.25 | $0.2 | Not listed | $2.5 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning (≥200k) | $2.5 | $0.2 | Not listed | $5 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent (<200k) | $1.25 | $0.2 | Not listed | $2.5 |
| Agent: xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent (≥200k) | $2.5 | $0.2 | Not listed | $5 |
| Agent: perplexity/glm-5.3 | $1.4 | $0.26 | Not listed | $4.4 |
| Agent: perplexity/glm-5.3-flash | $0.15 | $0.03 | Not listed | $0.5 |
| Agent: perplexity/kimi-k3 | $3 | $0.3 | Not listed | $15 |
| Agent: perplexity/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | $0.25 | $0.25 | Not listed | $2.5 |
| Agent: perplexity/sonar | $0.25 | $0.0625 | Not listed | $2.5 |
| Model or operation | Metric | Price | Unit | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search API | usage | $5 | per 1,000 successful requests | One successful POST /search, including up to five queries, is one unit. Empty successful responses are billed; invalid, rate-limited and upstream failures are not. No token fee. |
| Search API Fast Search | usage | $1 | per 1,000 successful requests | Set search_type=fast; same successful-request billing unit. |
| Agent web_search standard | usage | $0.0025 | per invocation | Tool charge is separate from model tokens. |
| Agent web_search Fast Search | usage | $0.001 | per invocation | search_type=fast. |
| Agent image_search | usage | $0.0025 | per successful invocation | |
| Agent fetch_url | usage | $0.0005 | per invocation | |
| Agent people_search | usage | $0.005 | per invocation | |
| Agent finance_search | usage | $0.005 | per invocation | |
| Agent sandbox | usage | $0.03 | per session | 20 minutes of active use per container is a billing window, not a runtime cap; SDK search adds $0.0025/request. |
| Sandbox SDK search | usage | $0.0025 | per request | Separate from session and model token charges. |
| pplx-embed-v1-0.6b | embedding input | $0.004 | per million tokens | Standard embeddings; 1024 dimensions. |
| pplx-embed-v1-4b | embedding input | $0.03 | per million tokens | Standard embeddings; 2560 dimensions. |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b | embedding input | $0.008 | per million tokens | Contextualized embeddings; 1024 dimensions. |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-4b | embedding input | $0.05 | per million tokens | Contextualized embeddings; 2560 dimensions. |
| pplx-decider-v1.1-27b | input | $0.02 | per million tokens | State, all questions and images count as input. |
| pplx-decider-v1.1-27b | output | $0 | per million tokens | State, all questions and images count as input. |
| pplx-decider-v1.1-27b | request fee | $0 | per request | State, all questions and images count as input. |
| pplx-decider-v1-27b | input | $0.02 | per million tokens | State, all questions and images count as input. |
| pplx-decider-v1-27b | output | $0 | per million tokens | State, all questions and images count as input. |
| pplx-decider-v1-27b | request fee | $0 | per request | State, all questions and images count as input. |
Router is in private preview; access required. Router has no per-request fee and bills at the requested model rates; reasoning uses output rates. Cache writes use input rates where no dedicated rate is listed; Router GLM 5.3 Flash has no cache writes. Agent default rates above differ from direct-provider rates (notably Gemini 3.6). Agent optional flex is 0.5× and priority/fast 2× listed token rates only on supported models; unsupported tiers fall back to default. Anthropic Agent requests require max_output_tokens. Context boundaries apply as displayed. Current Agent perplexity/sonar is separate from legacy Sonar endpoints, whose rates remain unavailable. Tool/request/session/embedding charges use the explicit units below; no complimentary API credits with subscriptions.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A free plan is available
- Pro and Max publish annual-billing monthly equivalents
- Enterprise Pro guide publishes source-scoped $40/month and $400/year starting prices.
Cons
- API usage is billed separately
- Enterprise eligibility and checkout taxes require confirmation
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