Perplexity Pro Price: $20 a Month, Max $200, Students $10

Quick answer: Perplexity Pro costs $20 a month. Perplexity Max costs $200 a month or $2,000 a year, and verified students and teachers can get Education Pro for $10 a month. Most people only need Pro. Max is for heavy users of Perplexity Computer and Research.

Last updated: November 8, 2026

Perplexity plans and prices

Plan	Price (US)	Who it's for
Standard (Free)	$0	Everyday search with a few Pro Searches
Pro	$20/month	Most paying users
Education Pro	$10/month	Students and educators verified through SheerID
Max	$200/month or $2,000/year	Power users who run Computer and Research all day
Enterprise Pro	From $40/month or $400/year per seat	Teams that need admin controls and data privacy

Prices are before sales tax. Annual billing for Max is only offered on the web at perplexity.ai, not in the iPhone or Android app.

What Pro gets you over the free plan

Feature	Free	Pro / Education Pro	Max
Pro Searches	3 per day	Weekly limit (average use)	Weekly limit (advanced use)
Research queries	1 per month	Monthly limit (average use)	Monthly limit (advanced use)
Browser agent (Comet Assistant)	No	Monthly limit	Higher monthly limit
Advanced AI models	No	Yes	Highest level of access
Image and video generation	No	Yes	Yes
Create files and apps	No	Monthly limit	Extended limit
Files per project	Limited	Up to 50	Up to 50

The free plan still gives you practically unlimited basic searches. You pay for Pro when three Pro Searches a day runs out by lunch, or when you want to pick models like GPT or Claude yourself.

Education Pro includes everything in Pro, plus Learn Mode. You verify your student or teacher status through SheerID, and the help center lists unlimited Pro Searches for this plan.

Pro vs. Max: is the $180 jump worth it?

Max is 10 times the price of Pro. On top of everything in Pro, it adds:

The highest level of access to advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others in Research
Create files and apps (dashboards, spreadsheets, slides, web apps) with minimal limits
Early access to new products before everyone else
Brain, a memory system for Perplexity Computer, free during its research preview
Priority support with faster response times
10,000 Computer credits every month (more on credits below)

Pick Pro if you mostly ask questions and run a few Research reports a week. Pick Max only if you keep hitting Pro's weekly and monthly caps, or you hand Computer multi-step jobs every day.

How Perplexity credits work

Credits pay for Perplexity Computer, the assistant that does multi-step tasks for you. Normal Ask searches do not use credits. Today, 100 credits = $1.

Task	Typical credits	About
Quick fact or definition	15–70	$0.15–$0.70
Multi-step research report	350–950	$3.50–$9.50
Data dashboard	2,400–9,800	$24–$98
Full app or multi-day build	15,000+	$150+

Plan	Monthly credits	One-time sign-up bonus
Pro	None (paid Pro includes weekly Computer usage instead)	4,000 credits, expire in about 30 days
Max	10,000 per month	35,000 credits, expire in about 30 days

A few rules that catch people out:

The sign-up bonus is one per account. You don't get it again if you cancel and resubscribe or switch from monthly to yearly.
Paid Pro plans get a weekly amount of Computer usage. It resets each week, it isn't added to your credit balance, and free or promotional Pro plans don't get it.
With included usage but no credits, Computer only runs on the Light effort setting.
When credits run out, Perplexity charges your card only if auto-refill is on.

Refunds and canceling

For customers outside the EU, UK, Turkey, South Korea and Brazil, including the US, the refund window is short:

Billing	Refund window
Monthly	24 hours after purchase
Annual	48 hours after purchase

Cancel inside that window, then ask for a refund through Help > Contact Support. Customers in the EU, UK and Turkey get 14 days.

Where you cancel depends on where you paid:

Web: Settings > Subscription > Manage Subscription > Cancel.
iPhone or iPad: App Store > your profile > Subscriptions. Apple handles refunds for these.
Android: Google Play > Payments & subscriptions.

Deleting your Perplexity account does not cancel an App Store or Google Play subscription. After you cancel, you keep Pro until the end of the billing period, then drop to the free plan.

Upgrading from Pro to Max: on the web, Perplexity credits your unused Pro balance and charges the prorated difference. On Android, Google Play charges the full Max price right away and adds your leftover Pro time to the end.

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Prices are as of November 8, 2026 in US dollars, before sales tax.