Perplexity pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Perplexity (perplexity.ai) is a AI assistant. Flat monthly subscriptions for individuals (Pro, Max) and per-seat plans for organizations (Enterprise Pro, Enterprise Max), with agent credits on top.. Free plan: Free plan with unlimited basic searches, basic models and a small allowance of Pro searches and research..
What Perplexity costs
- Solo: $20/mo (Pro $20/mo on monthly billing ($200/yr, shown as $17/mo billed annually). Education Pro $10/mo (student verification) ignored.)
- Top plan: $200/mo (Max $200/mo on monthly billing ($2,000/yr, shown as $167/mo billed annually; annual only on web).)
- Team of 10: $400/mo (Enterprise Pro $40/seat/mo monthly x 10 = $400 (or $400/seat/yr annually). Self-serve org creation with card payment; no seat minimum stated.)
Plan compared: Pro. Monthly list price in USD on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). Solo is the cheapest paid plan one person can buy, Top is the most expensive individual tier, and Team of 10 is ten seats on the cheapest team plan with central billing and admin, including any suite license the assistant requires.
What Perplexity does
Core: Deep research reports, Multi-lab model choice, Cited web search.
Important: Autonomous multi-step tasks, AI browser agent, Docs, slides & sites output, Prebuilt app integrations (partly), Company knowledge grounding, Mobile apps, Team workspace & sharing, Frontier model chat, Projects and knowledge bases, Native mobile apps, Browser sidebar assistant, Team workspace and admin.
Also has: Code & file workspace, Custom AI assistants (partly), Schedules & event triggers (partly), Custom tools & MCP (partly), Multi-agent orchestration, Human approval steps (partly), AI long-term memory, Deploy via API & channels (partly), SSO & compliance, Agent templates & gallery (partly), File and data analysis, Canvas and artifacts (partly), Image and video generation, Live voice and vision (partly), Desktop app with screen context (partly), Work app connectors, Privacy-first chats (partly).
Perplexity price hikes
No price hikes on record for Perplexity.
Cheaper alternatives to Perplexity
At 1 user, Perplexity costs $20/mo. 3 AI assistants cost less:
- Gemini: $4.99/mo (Google AI Plus), covers 84% of Perplexity; missing or partial: Multi-lab model choice, Company knowledge grounding (partly), Code & file workspace (partly), Custom tools & MCP, Multi-agent orchestration
- ChatGPT: $8/mo (Go), covers 93% of Perplexity; missing or partial: Multi-lab model choice, Multi-agent orchestration (partly)
- Microsoft Copilot: $9.99/mo (Microsoft 365 Personal), covers 92% of Perplexity; missing or partial: Multi-lab model choice (partly), Image and video generation (partly), Work app connectors (partly)
Perplexity alternatives: 3 cheaper AI assistants compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: perplexity.ai/pro. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from Perplexity's pricing page (annual-billed figures), the Max help article ($200/mo or $2,000/yr) and the Enterprise pricing FAQ ($40/$325 per seat); Pro $20/mo is long-standing and stated in the July 2025 Max launch post. PricingSaaS history (mid-2026 on) shows only model lineup and packaging changes, no price changes; May 2026 reports of tighter Pro usage caps were attributed by Perplexity to promo-code accounts and are not recorded as a hike. archive.org snapshots were unavailable to verify older prices.