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

Perplexity launched its costliest 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 providers that utilise third-party fashions, and better price limits. While the new subscription tier has arrived, the current Perplexity Pro and the enterprise-focused Enterprise Pro tiers stay unchanged.

Perplexity Max to Offer Early Access to the Comet Browser

In a weblog submit, 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 firms, and even smaller gamers such as Cursor have began providing related 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 one among the fast 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 can even get entry to “more premium data sources and benefits from leading brands.”

Further, Perplexity Max customers can even get entry to frontier AI fashions such as OpenAI o3-pro and Claude Opus 4, and people customers who need to use these flagship fashions for particular initiatives can even get precedence help.

Perplexity Max is on the market on the internet and iOS beginning at present. New customers can subscribe to it at present, and current 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.