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Perplexity
Featured VerifiedAn answer engine that cites its sources — search and AI in one interface.
About Perplexity
- Conversational Chat AI Capabilities
- Text Generation Content & Media
- File Uploads Data & Files
- Public API Developer & Automation
- Team Workspaces Collaboration
- SSO & SAML Security & Compliance
Key Features
AI Capabilities
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Conversational Chat
Multi-turn natural-language conversation with follow-up context.
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Reasoning Mode
A deliberate "thinking" mode that works through multi-step problems before answering.
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Web Search & Live Answers
Core featureSearches the live web and cites sources instead of relying on training data alone.
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Memory & Personalisation
Remembers preferences and past context across separate conversations.
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Multi-Model Switching
Pro plansPick a different underlying model per task — fast, balanced or deep-reasoning.
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Multilingual Support
Understands and replies in dozens of languages, including translation between them.
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Long-Context Understanding
Handles very long documents and conversations without losing earlier context.
Content & Media
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Text Generation
Drafts, rewrites and edits long-form and short-form copy.
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Image Generation
ProCreates original images from a text prompt.
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Image Understanding
Reads photos, screenshots, diagrams and handwriting and answers questions about them.
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Voice Conversation
Real-time spoken input and natural spoken replies.
Data & Files
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File Uploads
Attach files to a conversation for the model to read and work with.
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Document Analysis
Summarises, extracts from and answers questions about PDFs, DOCX and slides.
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Spreadsheet & Data Analysis
Cleans, pivots and analyses tabular data and explains what it found.
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Chart & Graph Creation
Produces charts and visualisations from your own data.
Developer & Automation
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Public API
SonarA documented API for building the same capability into your own product.
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Custom Assistants
SpacesBuild and share a configured assistant with its own instructions and knowledge.
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Agentic Browsing
CometNavigates websites and completes multi-step tasks on your behalf.
Collaboration
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Team Workspaces
Shared workspace with pooled seats, billing and admin management.
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Projects & Folders
SpacesGroup related chats, files and instructions into a reusable project space.
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Shareable Links
Publish a conversation or output as a link others can open.
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Export & Download
Export chats, documents or data out of the product in an open format.
Security & Compliance
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SSO & SAML
EnterpriseSingle sign-on through your identity provider.
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Admin Controls & Roles
Central console for seats, roles, permissions and usage.
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Data-Retention Controls
Configure how long conversation data is kept, or turn training off.
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SOC 2 Compliance
Independently audited against the SOC 2 security framework.
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GDPR Compliance
Offers a data-processing agreement and EU data-protection commitments.
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Encryption at Rest & in Transit
Traffic and stored data are encrypted with industry-standard ciphers.
Perplexity Pricing
Prices are set by the vendor and may change.
Free
$0 /month
What's included
- Unlimited quick searches
- A daily allowance of Pro searches
- Cited answers with follow-ups
- Web, iOS and Android
Pro
$20 /month
What's included
- Greatly expanded Pro searches
- Choose between frontier models
- File and document uploads
- Image generation
- Spaces for organised research
Max
Premium tier /month
What's included
- Highest limits for heavy research
- Priority access to new features
- Advanced agentic capabilities
- Everything in Pro
Enterprise
Custom
What's included
- SSO/SAML and user provisioning
- Internal knowledge-base connectors
- Data-retention controls and audit logs
- Dedicated support
Integrations
Built on these AI Models
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Real-World Use Cases
- Research
- Fact-checking
- Market analysis
- Competitive intelligence
- Learning
- Shopping research
What is Perplexity?
Perplexity is an AI answer engine. Instead of returning ten blue links, it reads the web in real time and writes a direct answer with numbered citations you can click through and verify.
That citation-first design is the whole point. Every claim traces back to a source, which makes Perplexity usable for work where an unattributed answer is worthless — competitive research, due diligence, fact-checking, literature scans.
Beyond plain search it offers Spaces for organising a body of research with your own uploaded files, and a Comet browser that brings the same answer engine into general browsing.
Benefits of Perplexity
What Perplexity does better than a general chatbot:
- Every answer is cited. Numbered sources sit inline, so verification takes one click.
- Always current. It searches at query time — no training cut-off to work around.
- Focus modes. Restrict a search to academic papers, social discussion, video or the whole web.
- Follow-up threads. Research stays in one place and builds on itself.
- Spaces. Combine web results with your own uploaded documents.
- Model choice on paid plans. Route a query to whichever frontier model suits it.
Who Should Use Perplexity?
Perplexity is built for people who have to show their work.
- Analysts and consultants producing briefs that need sourcing.
- Journalists and researchers fact-checking against primary sources.
- Students and academics using the academic focus mode.
- Founders and marketers running competitor and market scans.
- Anyone who has grown tired of wading through SEO pages to find one number.
It is not the right tool for long creative writing or heavy code generation — a general assistant handles those better.
Pros & Cons
Pros
6- Every answer carries inline, clickable citations.
- Searches the live web, so results are never stale.
- Focus modes narrow a query to academic, social or video sources.
- Spaces combine web results with your own uploaded documents.
- Paid plans let you pick which frontier model answers a question.
- Far faster than manually reading through search results.
Cons
4- Weaker than a general assistant at long-form creative writing.
- Not a serious coding tool.
- Answer quality depends on what the web actually published.
- The free tier limits how many in-depth Pro searches you get per day.
What's New
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Comet browser general availability
FeatureThe Perplexity browser opened up more widely, bringing agentic browsing to everyday tabs.
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Spaces collaboration
FeatureShared research Spaces with custom instructions and team access.
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Sonar API pricing update
PricingRevised per-request pricing tiers for the developer search API.
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Model picker expansion
FeaturePro subscribers can route queries to additional frontier models.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Perplexity free to use?
How is Perplexity different from Google?
How is Perplexity different from ChatGPT?
Can I trust the citations?
What are Spaces?
Does Perplexity have an API?
What is Comet?
Tool Information
- Category AI Chatbots & Assistants
- PricingFreemium
- Free PlanYes
- API AvailableYes
- Mobile App
- Language Support16+ Languages
- Starting Price$0
- DeveloperPerplexity AI
- Founded2022
- Websitewww.perplexity.ai
- StatusActive
- Last UpdatedAug 15, 2026
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