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You have four ways to get a free Perplexity Pro subscription.
A free year is available if you're a PayPal or Venmo user.
Government workers also get a free year.
If you've been interested in upgrading your AI experience with one of the available paid subscriptions, pay attention because here's your chance to score a free year of Perplexity Pro.
Perplexity is a free AI chatbot and internet search tool that operates like other AI chatbots. ZDNET's Steven Vaughan-Nichols called it his favorite chatbot, beating out ChatGPT and Copilot.
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Perplexity Pro gives you several upgrades over a free account. These include increased usage of Pro Search, which breaks down queries with multi-step reasoning and programming; the option to choose which AI model you want to use; file analysis, which lets you upload documents for summaries or insights; multimodal capabilities, where you can capture a picture or screenshot and asking questions about it; and image generation from Access Playground v3, OpenAI DALL-E 3, Flux, and Stable Diffusion XL.
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