Perplexity - Conversational AI Search Engine

Perplexity is an AI-powered search and answer engine that provides structured, fully cited answers synthesized from real-time web exploration and community discussions.

Key Capabilities

• Direct Sourced Answers: Receive detailed summaries with clickable citations for every claim and statistic.
• Pro Model Flexibility: Switch between GPT-5.2, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok.
• Social Search & UGC: Pulls real-world insights from forums like Reddit and GitHub discussions.
• Perplexity Computer: Delegate multi-step browsing and data synthesis tasks to autonomous web agents.

Pricing

• Free: $0/month (basic conversational search).
• Pro: $17/month (billed annually) with deep research mode, file uploads, and model choice.
• Ultra: $167/month (billed annually) with heavy compute allocations and Model Council.