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Perplexity Pricing 2026: Every Plan, API Cost, and Fees Explained

Perplexity pricing in 2026 spans six core SKUs: Free at $0, Pro at $20/month ($200/year), Max at $200/month ($2,000/year), Education Pro at $10/month for verified students, Enterprise Pro at $40/seat/monthet Enterprise Max at $325/seat/month. The Sonar API sits on its own per-token ladder, from $1 per million tokens on the base Sonar model up to $15 per million output tokens on Sonar Pro.

This guide covers every part of Perplexity pricing you’ll actually pay for. We walk through the consumer plans, daily query limits, the Sonar API rate card, Comet (now free as of March 2026) and Comet Plus, plus the Education and Enterprise tiers. Every number was pulled directly from perplexity.ai, the Perplexity API docs, and recent vendor announcements, then we ran the math on what each plan really costs in real workflows.

The Key Takeaways

  • Perplexity Free is permanent and includes about 5 Pro Search queries per day with basic models and citations.
  • Perplexity Pro is $20/month or $200/year (≈ $16.67/month) and includes unlimited Pro Search plus 20 Deep Research queries per day.
  • Perplexity Max sits at $200/month or $2,000/year, with unlimited Labs and Perplexity Computer (10,000 monthly credits).
  • Comet browser is now free on iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, and Comet Plus is $5/month for premium publisher content.
  • Sonar API runs from $1/$1 per million tokens on the base model to $3/$15 on Sonar Pro, with a $5 to $14 per 1,000 request fee on top.

Perplexity Plans 2026 (Free, Pro at $20, Max at $200, Education Pro at $10, Enterprise Pro at $40, Enterprise Max at $325)

Perplexity has six paid surfaces in 2026: a free tier, three consumer subscriptions (Pro, Max, Education Pro), two Enterprise tiers (Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max), plus the developer-facing Sonar API. Most readers want the consumer ladder, so here it is at a glance. If you only care about the $0 option, our full guide on whether is Perplexity AI free breaks down exactly what the free tier includes.

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