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🏆 TOP-RATED AI ASSISTANT · 2026
Perplexity
76
SQUADSCORE™
Strong Pick
$33
Per seat: $33 · Security: SOC 2 + SSO + audit
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Perplexity

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

76
SquadScore

Strong Pick

Ranked #2 of 10 AI assistants & chat

$33

Perplexity isn't trying to be your everything-assistant, and that focus is the point. It's built to answer a question with sources attached, which is exactly what you want before you repeat a claim in a board meeting. Enterprise Pro is $40/seat/month ($400/year); the individual Pro plan most executives actually start on is $20/month.

Standout feature: Every answer comes with clickable citations — the feature that makes it safe to actually quote in a client email.

The verdict

Perplexity earns a SquadScore of 75.5/100 (strong pick), ranking #2 of 10 AI assistants & chat we’ve scored at $33. Every answer comes with clickable citations — the feature that makes it safe to actually quote in a client email.

Scored by the published SquadScore v1.0.0 methodology from vendor-published specs, August 2026.

Pros

  • Citations by default make it the easiest tool here to fact-check before you repeat something
  • Premium data sources (PitchBook, Statista) baked into Enterprise Pro are a real research shortcut
  • Model council feature lets you compare answers from multiple underlying models on one query

Cons

  • Weaker than ChatGPT or Claude at long-form drafting — it's built to answer, not to write a ten-page memo
  • Enterprise Max jumps to $325/seat/month, an enormous step up from Enterprise Pro's $40

SquadScore breakdown

How the 75.5/100 was built. Each spec is normalised to a 0–100 quality score, then weighted.

Price Per Seat$33
4518% wt
Security & AdminSOC 2 + SSO + audit
8214% wt
Setup Effort15 minutes
8014% wt
Free Tier QualityCapped
4512% wt
Business Integrations400
10012% wt
Data & Tool ConnectionsMCP + agent actions
10012% wt
Context Window200 K tokens
7710% wt
Where It RunsWeb + desktop + mobile
958% wt

— means the vendor publishes no figure. Blanks drop out of the maths and the remaining weights re-balance — we don’t guess.

Research log. Every figure above traces to a source; where a vendor publishes nothing, we record the gap instead of guessing.1 dated correction

Enterprise pricing sourced from perplexity.ai/enterprise/pricing via search (direct fetch returned a 403). Context window (200K) is the Sonar Pro model's published figure, not necessarily identical to what the consumer chat app's 'Auto' mode exposes — Perplexity's own materials describe file/image uploads getting up to a 1M-token effective window through retrieval, which is a different mechanism than a single model's context. Rewired to the categories.ts eight-spec schema: securityTier is 'SOC 2 + SSO + audit' — Perplexity's own materials describe Enterprise Pro completing a 2026 SOC 2 Type II attestation, SAML SSO with SCIM, and real-time webhook audit logs of queries and settings changes. connectorSupport is 'MCP + agent actions' — Pro/Max/Enterprise subscribers can add custom MCP connectors, and the 'Computer' feature already takes actions inside Slack, Salesforce, Snowflake and HubSpot rather than only reading. integrations is 400 — Perplexity's own app-connectors page (perplexity.ai/enterprise/app-connectors) advertises '400+ everyday tools'; the live page 403'd on direct fetch, so this is cross-checked via search-engine indexing of that exact page rather than a raw fetch. freeTier remapped from 'Yes' to 'capped'. appCoverage is 'web + desktop + mobile' — Perplexity ships a native Mac app (and Windows) alongside the iOS/Android apps already on file.

Corrected Aug 16, 2026pricePerSeat corrected 40 -> 33. Enterprise Pro is $40/seat monthly or $400/seat/year, and the rubric prices the annual basis: $400/12 = $33.33, recorded as 33. CAVEAT ON SOURCING: both perplexity.ai/enterprise/pricing and the enterprise billing help-center article return 403 to automated fetches, so the $400 annual figure is corroborated from secondary sources rather than read off a vendor page. It is recorded because leaving Perplexity on a monthly basis while every competitor is priced annually distorts the ranking against it.

Full specifications

Price Per Seat$33
Security & AdminSOC 2 + SSO + audit
Setup Effort15 minutes
Free Tier QualityCapped
Business Integrations400
Data & Tool ConnectionsMCP + agent actions
Context Window200 K tokens
Where It RunsWeb + desktop + mobile
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SQUADSCORE™
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Price Per Seat$33
Security & AdminSOC 2 + SSO + audit
Setup Effort15 minutes
Free Tier QualityCapped
Business Integrations400
Data & Tool ConnectionsMCP + agent actions
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