Perplexity 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

Perplexity

4.6

(29)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI-enabled answer engine designed to provide accurate and real-time answers to questions. It serves researchers, students, professionals and individuals seeking reliable information without the need to sift through multiple search results. The platform is useful across various fields, including education, business, technology and personal knowledge management.

The engine includes several specialized functions. The Compare feature analyzes differences between concepts or items. Troubleshoot assists in solving problems methodically. Learn offers structured information for educational purposes. Fact Check verifies the accuracy of information. Plan helps organize and strategize projects or activities. Discover spaces provides templates for different types of inquiries.

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Perplexity Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Perplexity Features

Popular features found in Generative AI
Content Generation
Foundation Model
Natural Language Processing
Personalization and Recommendation
Transformer Model
More features of Perplexity
Adversarial Training
API
Data Augmentation
Prompt Engineering
Simulation and Scenario Generation
Transfer Learning and Fine-tuning
Variation Autoencoder Models

Perplexity User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

66%

28%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.6

Have you used Perplexity and would like to share your experience with others?

Waheed Ahmad K.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Designing experiments with AI models

My overall experience is great. I am using this daily in my life for organising my experiments, designing new experiments and take a hold of literature in my field. I also use it for analysis of my scientific data like growth curves, PCR, genomics and proteomics.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

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Pros:

I am a researcher and this app has helped me organise my literature and experiments in a great way. In addition, I am using the app daily for generating emails and refining them so that it gives consistency to my email. I like the way it reasons scientifically and can give one actual research papers.

Cons:

I feel with the advent of new AI model like ChatGPT 5.1 and Grok4.1, it is somehow lagging behind. In addition to this, the feature of not being able to generate word or pdf files is something that I do not like.

Reasons for switching to Perplexity

The early models of ChatGPT were not great in scientific reasoning.

M. Cristina M.

Verified reviewer

Broadcast Media

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Like having my personal assistant who knows where to find and how to fix everything

I started using Perplexity to experiment with AI but I soon realised that it was a great search tool, much better than Google: it doesn't flood you with advertisement or paid ads and gives you always relevant results, but the best feature is the direct link to the sources, so that you can judge yourself whether they are reliable, and so far, they always were. And it really helps with finding obscure stuff on the web, stuff that would have taken me 30 minutes, Perplexity takes a few seconds. And another great function is that I can upload pictures, for example, it happened that I had an issue with my computer, I uploaded the screenshot and Perplexity delivered the solution, explaining me exactly how to fix the error.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

It works more like a search engine than an AI and give you all the links to the fonts from where the info comes, so that you can check first hand if the source is reliable.

Cons:

It is just more psychological than anything else, I feel very ambivalent towards AI, I do not like the way they use artists' work to train AI, so I am a bit against, but Perplexity uses AI to find stuff, rather than to rip artists off. Or this is at least my impression.

Reasons for switching to Perplexity

because of the limitation of Chat GPT that makes up stuff when it doesn't have an answer - very unreliable

Abir M.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

A reliable AI generator.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It provides the answer to my question with the resources it used to get to the information.

Cons:

When I'm providing a code to check it or to change it and I specify the way I want it to be done, Perplexity often chose another way than the one I needed .

Trinoy S.

Verified reviewer

Research

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2026

Perplexity is my daily AI buddy

My English is not that great, but it still manages to comprehend what questions I am asking and even improves my writing. Regarding that, it is very useful for me on a daily basis regarding homework, programming questions, and random things that I want to find out.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

I work in Perplexity Pro, and it really helps me in studying and working. It searches on the web, shows sources, and explains simple words, so I don’t have to open many tabs. It’s also nice that I can upload files and get their summaries or code.

Cons:

In some cases, the answer given has a very confident tone, and then later on, there are small errors, so I have to recheck the links anyway. There are many modes and options, so it took me a while to get used to it. Also, after experiencing Pro, this free version feels very restrictive now.

Joseph L.

Verified reviewer

Professional Training & Coaching

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

The best AI tool available for business and students

Excellent. It lets me do 5 hours of work in 15 minutes (not an exaggeration if you know how to use it effectively to review or draft documents).

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

I have used it regularly since very early 2023 and became a paid subscriber in early 2024 as it delivered more value that I could turn into money on my end than other other AI available. Uploading and reviewing documents within an expertise "Space" you create lets you create your AI-expert in any field.

Cons:

They need to work on their marketing because it is superior to ChatGPT and others, yet few know about it.

Reasons for switching to Perplexity

Perplexity offered more for less while giving me access to various other AI's. I actually cancelled by paid ChatGPT subscription and paid for same with Perplexity.

Mark H.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Perplexity - Great search/LLM combo tool

Overall it is an incredible daily research tool and it has replaced Google search for me.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

I love how it searches the web for results as opposed to other LLMs that don't (I know now that many do). The user interface is also great and the fact that I can choose different models is a huge differentiator

Cons:

The desktop app is pretty buggy over the course of using it for a few months. I also think they are losing ground on the next-gen models but I don't have much of a basis of saying that besides other tech people not citing Perplexity as pushing the envelope.

Reasons for switching to Perplexity

I wanted a premium product and there was a 1 year free trial for Perplexity. Also at the time Perplexity was the only one with online search.

Gourav P.

Verified reviewer

Design

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2025

I've used all of the Al apps, and this is the most factual, useful, and fun. Great for creativity, learning, news, and research of all kinds.

i am immense happy with the output of this Al. It is concise, quick, efficient and effective. Good Al for surfing answers to your questions, but not good in generating photos or creativity within it. But one of the most worst thing of this Al; which needs to be stopped immediately is... that ; they are running an add in the social media to ruin students future, students are using this Al for solving their homework. The students are not understanding it instead they are copy pasting it.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The platform demonstrates exceptional performance, offering a user-friendly experience. Its comprehensive and detailed responses to a wide range of inquiries have significantly enhanced my workflow, surpassing previous experiences with platforms like Google and OpenAl. The intuitive design and intelligent functionality are highly commendable.

Cons:

This app has great potential, and when it works well it's really good. The downsides right now all that there's no voice activation (or "wake word"), so you have to pick your phone up before you can give voice instructions, and the app doesn't preserve any voice settings (like custom speed or accent) between sessions. If these two points were improved it would be a killer app. Also on the free plan you can use up all your talk time just trying out the voices. Today it started speaking Spanish

Ben L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Next-generation AI-powered search

Perplexity has replaced google for any search query that requires more context and reasoning. As LLMs become smarter and faster, I see myself using Perplexity most of the time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Perplexity unlocks the power of LLM-powered search by incorporating internet-browsing to provide the most relevant results. The Deep Research capability leverages DeepSeek to provide reasoned answers and complete research write ups. I also like the attribution for any external sources which are used. You can choose from a variety of LLMs and reasoning models to compare results.

Cons:

Initially the lag time to produce an answer took time to get used to. However they do provide good UX via status updates so now the 5-10 delay is more palatable. Even if you buy the $20 / month plan, you still need to pay extra for API access beyond $5. However the token cost is affordable.