Perplexity
AI-powered answer engine/search with cited answers.
Perplexity at a glance
- Ages
- 12 to 14, 15 to 18, adults maker’s page
- Price from
- Not verified
- Free plan
- Not verified
- Under 13
- Not allowed under its terms maker’s page
- Devices
- phone, laptop or tablet maker’s page
- Exams
- The maker names no exam
- Languages
- Not verified
From the maker’s own pages, checked 4 and 5 October 2026 (tools added on 27 October 2026 were checked that day). “Not verified” means we haven’t found the fact, not that the answer is no.
Independence: our publisher builds learning products too. We don’t review or score its products, and no tool pays to be listed or to rank higher — how we assess fit.
What it does
What the AI actually does — Generates responses to user input using AI models in a search engine.
Who built it
- Company
- Perplexity AI, Inc.
- Founders
- Aravind Srinivas · Denis Yarats · Johnny Ho · Andy Konwinski
- HQ / origin
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Founded
- 2022
- Model
- B2C / B2B
- Languages
- [TBD]
- Pricing
- Education Pro discounted for verified students/educators, amount not stated; other prices not found on pages opened (seen 2026-10-27).
We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.
Where it sits
Perplexity is on the Learning Tools Index, in study & homework help, built in United States.
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