# Perplexity pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Free). Among the 7 ai chatbot assistants we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** perplexity.ai
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Not published · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** Slack, Comet AI browser (Max tier), Perplexity API, Excel/Word/PDF file upload (Enterprise Pro), Shopping Hub, Finance real-time data
**Best for:** real-time research with citations; fact-checking and source verification; financial and market research; shopping comparison; users who distrust black-box AI answers; teams needing internal document search (Enterprise Pro)
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | — | flat | Unlimited standard searches, limited Pro searches per day, access to standard models. | techcrunch.com |
| Pro | $20 | — | flat | Consumer tier with unlimited Pro searches, access to advanced models (GPT-4o, Claude), image generation, file upload. Annual option available at $200/year (~$16.67/month) per widely reported pricing. | techcrunch.com |
| Max | $200 | — | flat | Launched July 2025. Unlimited access to Labs (spreadsheet and report generation tool), early access to Comet AI browser, priority access to latest frontier models (OpenAI o3-pro, Claude Opus 4). | techcrunch.com |
| Enterprise Pro | $40 | — | per_seat | $40/person/month. Business-focused plan with stronger security, data protection, team capabilities, and admin controls. | techcrunch.com |

**Key features:** Real-time web search with inline citations on every answer; Model choice: GPT-4o, Claude Opus 4, Gemini on Pro/Max; Perplexity Pages: structured shareable research reports; Labs: AI-generated spreadsheets and data reports; Perplexity Assistant: multi-app agentic task execution; Comet AI browser with agentic web navigation (Max); DeepSearch for extended multi-source reasoning; Shopping Hub with real-time product data; Finance tools with live stock quotes; Internal Knowledge Search on Enterprise Pro (PDF, Word, Excel).

**Plan limits:** Free: limited Pro searches per day (exact count not published); Free: no access to frontier models (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini); Free: no image generation; Free: no file upload; Enterprise Pro: max 500 uploaded files for internal knowledge search.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page perplexity.ai/pricing returned HTTP 403 on 2026-06-14. Pro ($20/month) price corroborated from TechCrunch article dated 2025-07-02 announcing the Max plan. Max ($200/month) and Enterprise Pro ($40/seat/month) prices from same TechCrunch article.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ai-chatbot-assistants/perplexity/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Perplexity's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ai-chatbot-assistants/perplexity/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl