Choosing the right Perplexity plan depends on your usage needs, team size, and the features you require. Here’s a breakdown of each plan to help you decide.
What Perplexity plans are available?
Individual:
Standard (Free)
Education Pro ($10/mo with verification from SheerID).
Enterprise:
API (Individual and Enterprise):
What do I get with the Free (Standard) plan?
Search history access
Practically unlimited basic searches
Very limited amount of Pro Searches
We pick the best model to use for your query
Basic file uploads (limited)
No access to advanced AI models, image generation, or premium support.
What does Perplexity Pro (Individual) offer?
Extended access to Pro Search
Limited amount Create files and apps queries every 30 days
Access to advanced AI models, full list here
Image and video generation
Increased rate limits for file and attachment uploads and analysis
Exclusive support channels (2 business day response)
Up to 50 file uploads per space
Best for: Anyone that wants to leverage the best and most up to date in AI productivity and research technology.
What does Education Pro offer?
Upon verification of your Student or Faculty status (at a university-level institution or higher) with SheerID, you'll get access to everything in the Pro plan plus:
10x as many citations in answers
File and image uploads
Access to Study Mode for interactive flashcards and quizzes
Extended access to Perplexity Research
Extended access to Perplexity Academic
Exclusive education discount at $10/month
One subscription for all the latest AI models
Best for: Students or faculty who are looking to supercharge their teaching, learning, and maximize proven study methods for long-term understanding.
What does Perplexity Max (Individual) include?
Max will include everything in the Pro plan plus:
The Highest Level Access to Our Full Suite of Advanced AI Models: get faster access to the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others in Perplexity Research, and create files and apps with minimal limits on volume or frequency.
Extended limits for Create files and apps Queries: Create as many reports or projects as you need using advanced tools to create dashboards, spreadsheets, presentations, and web applications.
Early Access to our newest products: Try the latest features and products before they’re available to everyone else.
Brain (Research Preview): Max subscribers using Perplexity Computer get access to Brain, a self-improving memory system that builds a working model of your projects, people, and files so Computer can act on what you've been doing.
Priority Support: Max plan subscribers receive the highest level of support, with dedicated infrastructure and faster response times.
Best for: Users who need advanced access to our most powerful research features and early access to new features and products
What does Enterprise Pro include?
All Pro features, plus:
Trust center access and strict data privacy (data never used for training)
Per-seat pricing (starts at $40/month or $400/year/seat)
Advanced seat management for organizations
Increased daily file uploads (with organization-level controls)
Dedicated support (aim to respond within 8 hours)
Admins manage billing and account access
Spaces for team collaboration, custom knowledge hubs, and internal file search.
Best for: Businesses and organizations needing robust collaboration, security, and admin controls.
What does Enterprise Max offer?
All Enterprise Pro features, plus:
Create more files and apps: Generate the reports or projects you need with extended rate-limits for advanced tools to build dashboards, spreadsheets, presentations, and web applications.
More Research queries: Generate comprehensive reports on complex topics, using autonomous, multi-step analysis.
Enhanced video generation: Enterprise Max users can generate 15 videos per month. Each video is 8 seconds long, includes audio, and is in landscape (16:9) format.
Advanced models in Perplexity Search: Enterprise Max users get the highest level of access to advanced models like GPT-5 Thinking and Opus 4.6, with generous usage limits—ideal for advanced users and knowledge professionals.
This only applies within Perplexity web and does not apply to programatic access via API, which is billed separately.
Greater file limits: Enterprise Max supercharges the capabilities of your personal repository (My Files), hosting 10,000 files. The file capacity of Spaces also increases for Enterprise Max users to 5,000 files per Space.
Premium security features: No seat minimum for organization-wide access to SCIM, Audit Logs, configurable Data Retention, and Insights dashboard if an organization has at least one Enterprise Max user.
Brain (Research Preview): Max subscribers using Perplexity Computer get access to Brain, a self-improving memory system that builds a working model of your projects, people, and files so Computer can act on what you've been doing.
Early access to new features: Try the latest features and products before they’re available to everyone else.
Priority support: Enterprise Max plan subscribers get faster support response times.
Best for: Businesses and organizations needing advanced data security, powerful collaboration tools, and the highest access to the latest AI models, Create files and apps and Research search modes, Comet Assistant, and Perplexity’s newest features.
What is the Perplexity API or Sonar for?
Designed for developers and businesses integrating Perplexity’s AI into their own products
Pay-as-you-go pricing: Buy credits or set up auto top-off
No access to advanced models or Pro features within the web/app interface
No complimentary API credits
No data logging or storage
Access to API groups for usage tracking and sharing API keys.
Best for: Developers needing API access for custom applications or automation.
How do the plans compare?
Feature | Free | Pro | Education Pro | Max | Enterprise Pro | Enterprise Max |
Pro Searches | 3/day | Weekly limits (average use) | Weekly limits (average use) | Weekly limits | Extended limits (400/week) | Highest limits (4000/week) |
Research Queries | 1/month | Monthly limits (average use) | Monthly limits (average use) | Monthly limits | Extended limits (80/month) | Highest limits (800/month) |
Advanced AI Models | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Image Generation | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
File and App Creation | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
File Uploads (Threads)† | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Organization File Repository | No |