Perplexity Max Introduced as the Company’s Most Expensive Subscription Plan Yet

Perplexity launched its most costly subscription tier on Tuesday. Dubbed Perplexity Max, the new plan is aimed toward the platform’s heavy customers and prices $200 (roughly Rs. 17,000) a month. To entice customers to buy the subscription, the San Francisco-based synthetic intelligence (AI) agency can also be providing early entry to new options, precedence entry to companies that utilise third-party fashions, and better price limits. While the new subscription tier has arrived, the present Perplexity Pro and the enterprise-focused Enterprise Pro tiers stay unchanged.

Perplexity Max to Offer Early Access to the Comet Browser

In a weblog put up, the AI startup introduced the new subscription tier and highlighted the advantages it comes with. Interestingly, with Perplexity Max, the firm has now joined the ranks of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which have additionally launched their $200 plans in current months. This hyper-premium subscription mannequin is changing into more and more standard amongst Silicon Valley AI corporations, and even smaller gamers such as Cursor have began providing comparable subscriptions.

With Perplexity’s new plan, subscribers will get limitless entry to Perplexity Labs, the firm’s new function that lets customers generate stories, spreadsheets, dashboards, and internet apps. It is at the moment solely obtainable to paid subscribers, and Pro customers can entry it with price limits.

Differences between Perplexity Pro and Perplexity Max subscriptions
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The firm additionally plans to launch new options and merchandise to this group of subscribers. Highlighting considered one of the instant advantages, Perplexity stated it plans to supply Max customers with early entry to the AI-native Comet browser, which was first teased in February. Additionally, subscribers may also get entry to “more premium data sources and benefits from leading brands.”

Further, Perplexity Max customers may also get entry to frontier AI fashions such as OpenAI o3-pro and Claude Opus 4, and people customers who wish to use these flagship fashions for particular tasks may also get precedence help.

Perplexity Max is out there on the internet and iOS beginning at present. New customers can subscribe to it at present, and present subscribers can improve their plans. Notably, the firm additionally highlighted that it’s planning to launch an enterprise model of Max with limitless Labs queries in the future.