What does Perplexity Pro offer?

Airtel is providing its 360 million customers in India with a complimentary one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro, which is typically priced at ₹17,000 per year (approximately $200 annually). Airtel users can avail this offer by logging-on to the Airtel Thanks App. 

What can you gain from it?

Instant, Cited Answers: Every answer comes with inline citations and sources, making fact-checking easier and more reliable for research or data-heavy tasks.

Real-Time Information: Incorporates live web search by default, ensuring answers reflect the latest data and events—something most rivals only offer in premium modes or with manual browsing.

Supports Multiple AI Models: Users can select from leading LLMs (like GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity’s proprietary models) for more control and flexibility

As of October 2025, you can select from the following models -

1. Sonar - Perplexity's fast model
2. Claude Sonnet 4.0 - Anthropic's advanced model
3. Claude Sonnet 4.0 Thinking - Anthropic's reasoning model
4. Claude Opus 4.1 Thinking - Anthropic's Opus reasoning model with thinking
5. Gemini 2.5 Pro - Google's latest model
6. GPT-5 - OpenAI's latest model
7. GPT-5 Thinking - OpenAI's latest model with thinking
8. o3  - OpenAI's reasoning model
9. o3-pro - OpenAI's most powerful reasoning model
10. Grok 4 - xAI's most powerful reasoning model

How is it different from other popular AI chatbots

Generally speaking, ChatGPT is best for conversation and creativity. Gemini excels at multimodal content and Google integration. Claude leads in thoughtful, nuanced, and safe dialogue. Perplexity excels as an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time answers with citations.

Perplexity provides a variety of subscription plans designed to suit individual users, power users, developers, and organizations, including Free, Pro, Max, Enterprise Pro, and Sonar API.

Perplexity Pro offers -

1. 300+ Pro Searches instead of 5 available with the Free version
2. Access to advanced AI models like Sonar Large (in-house model built on LlaMa 3.1 70B), GPT-4.1, Claude 4.0 Sonnet, or Gemini 2.5 Pro. You can use these models just as you would in their original platforms without having to pay for them individually.
3. Access to Reasoning Search Models like R1 (Perplexity's fine-tuned, uncensored DeepSeek-R1 model hosted in the US, unlike the original which is hosted in China and subject to restrictions), OpenAI's o3, Claude 4.0 Sonnet Thinking and Grok4. 
4. Image generation.
5. Unlimited file and attachments uploads (PDFs, CSVs, audio, video and images) and their analysis with AI models like GPT-4 Omni and Claude 4.0 Sonnet
6. $5 monthly API credits to use Sonar models for your own projects
7. 50 Perplexity Labs queries per month. Labs can craft everything from reports and spreadsheets to dashboards and simple web applications.
8. Exclusive support channels (Discord, Intercom; 1–2 business day response)

Perplexity Pro is good for anyone that wants to leverage the best and most up to date in AI productivity and research technology. 

Source: Futurepedia

A cool feature of Perplexity is its ability to export answers in PDF, DOCX, or Markdown formats, which sets it apart from ChatGPT and Gemini.

Perplexity AI was co-founded by Aravind Srinivas who earned dual degrees (B.Tech and M.Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. With Srinivas as its CEO, Perplexity has secured significant funding from investors including Jeff Bezos, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, and Nvidia.