Perplexity Pro

The paid individual tier at 20 dollars per month (or 200 dollars per year). Gives unlimited Pro searches, access to a model picker covering GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Gemini, Mistral and Sonar Pro, file and document uploads, image generation, and 5 dollars per month of API credits. The baseline product for any operator using Perplexity seriously.

• Model picker across GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Gemini, Mistral, Sonar Pro
• Unlimited Pro searches with persistent numbered citations on every claim
• File and PDF uploads with sourced analysis
• Image generation via DALL-E and SDXL bundled in
• 5 dollars per month of API credits included

• Verify a supplier or contractor claim against public sources in under two minutes
• Pull a UK market sizing with cited ONS, IBISWorld and trade press figures
• Compare three accounting platforms with linked product pages and review sources
• Summarise a 40-page PDF tender document and surface the clauses that need legal review
• Build a competitor pricing scan with every figure footnoted

Drafting and long-form writing is mediocre next to Claude. The model picker is useful but adds decision fatigue. Output formatting is functional, not polished. Cannot match ChatGPT for image understanding or Claude for code generation.

20 dollars per month, or 200 dollars per year (saves ~17 percent). Education tier at 10 dollars per month for verified students.