# Perplexity

> Perplexity is a San Francisco software company that combines web retrieval with language models to produce conversational answers with citations. It sells subscriptions and enterprise research tools, supplies search and agent APIs to developers, and builds the Comet browser and Perplexity Computer for work across websites, files and applications.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Aravind Srinivas (Co-founder and CEO), Denis Yarats (Co-founder and CTO), Johnny Ho (Co-founder; Chief Strategy Officer (reported by Contrary Research)), Andy Konwinski (Co-founder and founding President; early investor)
- **Products:** Perplexity answer engine, Perplexity Pro, Enterprise Pro, Sonar API, Deep Research
- **Notable:** Launched a generally available conversational answer engine in 2022., Company reported more than 500 million queries in 2023., Entered enterprise subscriptions in April 2024.

## Products & services

- **Perplexity answer engine** — Conversational search that retrieves web material and synthesizes natural-language answers with inline citations; available on web and apps.
- **Perplexity Pro** — Paid individual plan publicly listed at US$20 per month or US$200 per year; expands research, file and model capabilities. Usage allowances vary.
- **Enterprise Pro** — Organization subscriptions with administration, SSO and privacy controls; launched in April 2024.
- **Sonar API** — Web-grounded answer API launched in January 2025. An August 2026 platform announcement directs Sonar users toward Agent API.
- **Deep Research** — Multi-step retrieval and synthesis for research reports; launched February 2025 with limited free access and higher paid allowances.
- **Comet** — AI browser launched July 2025 with an assistant for page understanding and browser tasks.
- **Comet Plus** — Publisher subscription initiative announced August 2025 with a planned 80% publisher revenue share.
- **Perplexity Computer** — Introduced February 2026; plans work and coordinates models and tools to create files and complete workflows.
- **Developer platform** — Search, Agent, Router and Embeddings APIs, with usage-based pricing and developer tooling.
- **Hybrid Compute on Mac** — September 2026 release divides tasks between cloud models and local models, with a privacy gate controlling protected information.

## Achievements

- Launched a generally available conversational answer engine in 2022.
- Company reported more than 500 million queries in 2023.
- Entered enterprise subscriptions in April 2024.
- Expanded from cited answers to developer APIs, the Comet browser and Computer workflows.
- Introduced a local/cloud privacy routing feature for Mac in September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — September 1: Hybrid Compute on Mac announced for local/cloud workflows with a privacy gate.
- **2026-09** — September 24: developer forum announced Fast Search in the Search API.
- **2026-09** — September 28: developer forum announced reusable Agent API agents with Profiles, Skills and managed connectors.
- **2026-08** — August 25: Portable Computer announced in collaboration with NVIDIA.
- **2026-07** — July 30: company announced Spaces are now Projects.
- **2026-02** — February 25: Perplexity Computer launched; that month executives described retreat from advertising.

## Links

- Website: https://www.perplexity.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/perplexity-ai/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/perplexity_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/perplexityai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYqxnCFtaC4-iC_bwt2bRLg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perplexity
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/perplexityofficial/

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Last updated: 2026-09-30