Perplexity

• June 24: Rechecked Perplexity Enterprise pricing, Comet, Sonar Pro, API pricing, Agent API tools, and privacy/security docs. Headline plan prices still hold: Pro $20/month or $200/year, Enterprise Pro $40/seat/month or $400/year, and Enterprise Max $325/seat/month or $3,250/year. The Sonar API docs still list Search API at $5 per 1,000 requests and Sonar Pro at 200K context.
• June 15: The AI search risk checklist now treats Perplexity’s visible citations as an advantage that still needs source-quality checks, synthesis review, and agent-budget controls before customer-facing use.
• May 8: Morningstar and PitchBook added Perplexity integrations for finance research workflows, strengthening Perplexity’s pitch as a cited, source-backed work surface for analysts.
• May 6: Snap said its planned $400 million Perplexity AI search deal ended amicably, making Perplexity’s direct app, Comet, enterprise, and Computer strategy more important than Snapchat distribution.
• April 24: A retrieval-poisoning demo exposed how thin, circular sources can contaminate AI search answers. This is directly relevant to Perplexity because citation UX needs source independence, not just visible links.
• April 16: Perplexity Personal Computer ships for Mac, a desktop-native research agent that works across your local files and browser tabs alongside web search.
• March 18: Comet browser paywall dropped. Free across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.

June 6 comparison update: Kagi vs Perplexity and Perplexity vs You.com were refreshed to separate three buyer jobs: private paid search, cited answer/research workflow, and grounding/research APIs.

Max adds Model Council and heavier Computer/research access. The Comet browser is free on every major platform. Paid pricing surfaces now also show asset and video generation limits, but Perplexity is still best understood as a research engine, not a creative media suite.

Pick Perplexity if you need cited, verifiable answers from the live web. Nothing else in the consumer-AI market surfaces sources as aggressively or as cleanly. Pro at $20/mo or $200/year is the right default for researchers, journalists, analysts, and anyone doing due diligence who needs to see where a claim came from.

Do not treat citations as automatic truth. The June 15 AI search liability refresh makes the buying rule explicit: visible links help, but source independence, source quality, synthesis accuracy, and review ownership still decide whether the output is safe to publish or act on.

Skip it if your workload is writing, coding-IDE work, voice agents, or creative generation as the primary job. Claude Opus 4.8 wins on long-form coherence and terminal coding; ChatGPT wins on feature breadth, image generation, and the Codex agent. Perplexity now exposes paid asset/video generation limits, but those are research-output extras rather than the reason to buy it.

Who pays which tier: Free for casual fact-checks, Pro $20/mo or $200/year for regular cited research (the sweet spot), individual Max $200/mo or $2,000/year only for heavy personal usage, Enterprise Pro $40/seat/mo or $400/year for teams that need SSO, shared files, and admin controls, Enterprise Max $325/seat/mo or $3,250/year only for heavy reasoning, multi-model research, larger files, video generation, and high-volume Computer workflows.

• Citations don’t guarantee correctness. Perplexity occasionally misrepresents what a linked source actually says. The citation looks authoritative but the underlying claim is a paraphrase drift or outright hallucination. Spot-check before quoting.
• Source quality varies by query. For thin-coverage topics the engine cites low-tier SEO content and blog roundups with the same confidence as primary sources. Depth is only as good as the open web on the topic.
• AI search liability is now a procurement issue. If Perplexity output feeds a customer page, report, ad, legal memo, medical note, or financial recommendation, require preserved source logs, source independence checks, and a named reviewer before the answer moves downstream.
• Paywalled content is mostly inaccessible. Academic journals, gated news, and subscription research do not load. For scientific literature use Consensus or Elicit instead.
• Model switching adds a decision tax. Pro users with six models on tap tend to ping-pong. The default (Sonar auto-routing) is the right choice for most queries; override only when you have a specific reason.
• Perplexity Computer credits deplete quietly. Pro shows 500 credits/mo and Enterprise Max shows 15,000 credits/mo on the June 2026 pricing page. Multi-step agent runs can burn credits fast, so watch the live credit tracker before kicking off a long deploy or scraping job.
• Agent actions need caps and approvals. Comet, Computer, and Agent API tools can move from answer generation into web/task execution. Treat browser actions, sandbox runs, and high-context API calls as controlled operations with spend ceilings and approval paths.
• Comet is not on iPad. Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android ship. iPad users are stuck with the web app or the regular Perplexity iOS app.
• Model Council is web-only on Max. Not available on mobile apps, Enterprise Pro, or the free tier. The synthesizer step adds latency. Expect 30-60s before a unified answer.
• Asset/video generation is not the core reason to buy. Paid plans expose asset and video limits, and Sonar can return media, but creative production teams should still use specialist image/video tools when output quality is the main job.

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Is Perplexity free? Yes. The free tier has limited advanced usage and access to standard cited answers. Pro at $20/mo or $200/year unlocks higher limits, the model switcher, Deep Research with deck and spreadsheet export, Spaces, Computer credits, and paid media limits.

Which frontier models can Pro users pick per query? Perplexity currently advertises model choice across recent GPT, Claude, Gemini, and other supported models. Exact model availability changes quickly, so check the model picker before buying for one specific model.

What is Sonar? Sonar is Perplexity’s search-grounded answer model family. For developers, the Sonar and Sonar Pro APIs expose search-grounded models with published 128K and 200K context windows.

It is also available to developers through the Sonar API. Pricing for Search API, Sonar, Agent API, tools, sandbox, and embeddings is listed in the Perplexity API pricing docs.

What does Deep Research do today? Deep Research runs multi-step research (typically 100+ sources over 2-5 minutes). As of the February 2026 upgrade it exports the result directly to PowerPoint, spreadsheets, dashboards, or a generated website.

The exact model path can vary by plan and selected model, so verify the in-product model setting when the engine matters.

Is Comet browser Mac-only? No. Comet shipped on Mac and Windows in July 2025, Android in November 2025, and iPhone on March 18, 2026. It is free across every platform. There is no iPad build.

What are Spaces? Spaces are file-grounded research workspaces, the renamed and expanded version of the old Collections feature. Queries inside a Space search both uploaded files and the open web.

Pro users get up to 50 files per Space, Enterprise up to 500. Scheduled Tasks let a Space run recurring research automatically.

What is Model Council and who gets it? Model Council runs the same query against multiple supported frontier models and compares their answers. A synthesizer then resolves agreements and disagreements into a unified answer.

It is Max-only (and Enterprise Max), web-only, not on mobile.

What is Perplexity Computer? An agentic work surface for paying subscribers that can use tools, files, connectors, and web context for multi-step tasks: research pipelines, analysis, drafting, and automation. The June 2026 pricing page lists 500 Computer credits per month on Pro and 15,000 credits per month on Enterprise Max; live credit tracking shows consumption as runs progress.

• Perplexity Enterprise pricing: Pro, Enterprise Pro, Enterprise Max, usage limits, Computer, asset/video limits, and team controls
• Perplexity Max help: individual Max price and positioning
• Perplexity API pricing docs: Search API, Sonar, Agent API tools, embeddings, request fees, and token prices
• Perplexity Sonar media docs: image, file, and video handling in API responses
• Perplexity Agent API tools: web search, fetch URL, people search, finance search, and sandbox tools
• Perplexity API privacy and security: API retention and privacy controls
• Perplexity Comet: browser platform availability and browser-assistant task examples
• Perplexity security: compliance, access controls, incident response, vendor review, and security-program posture

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