Perplexity Projects
perplexity.ai · Crawling, Storage · 2 records · JSON
- Perplexity CrawlingpaidcardcardDrequest-rate
- Perplexity Projects (formerly Spaces) — persistent file repository Storagefails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap
Perplexity Crawling
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| Free tier | none: the Search API is billed per successful request from the first one unit requests; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a request |
| Retention | not applicable: nothing is stored |
| Egress | not applicable: JSON answers |
| Identity | card billing is required before the first call |
| Limits |
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| Binding | request-rate |
| Interface | rest REST Search API, one billing unit per successful POST /search whatever the query count |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | Ranks second on the research report's quality index; unaffordable without a balance |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The platform's status.json shows a spent credit for this provider and no limit, consistent with a prepaid balance rather than a free tier. |
| Evidence rung | documented |
| Checked | 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21 |
Evidence (1)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | docs.perplexity.ai/getting-started/pricing | Search API USD 5.00 and Fast Search USD 1.00, charged per successful POST /search; a request with up to five queries is one billing unit |
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Perplexity Projects (formerly Spaces) — persistent file repository Storage
fails: egressemailno cardRper-object-cap
| Free tier | 5 GB per Project, 10,000 files per Project, 100 MB per file — identical on every plan, including free. Projects themselves: 'There's no limit on how many Projects you can create.' unit GB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | 100 MB per file (100000000 bytes) |
| Retention | Session uploads (not Projects) are 40-50 MB/file and are deleted after 7 days — do not confuse the two (7 days) |
| Egress | No egress concept — files are read by the model or viewed in-app, not served over a shareable URL. |
| Identity | email email |
| Limits |
per-object-cap 100 MB. Session uploads (not Projects) are 40-50 MB/file and are deleted after 7 days — do not confuse the two. Projects created before Aug 2026 may exceed 5 GB and then refuse new uploads. |
| Binding | per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota |
| Interface | unknown Web UI only for consumer. No public Files API. Enterprise has File Connectors and an organization repository (being retired 2026-10-01). |
| Tooling | None for storage. Unofficial browser automation only. |
| Composes with | Unlimited Projects x 5 GB each. Projects are the multiplicative axis and the help centre states the cap is absent. Unlike NotebookLM, adding a Project costs nothing and there is no account-wide byte wall documented. |
| Reliability | Projects retain files 'until deleted', which is the good half. But there is no API, so a programmatic client cannot drive this without a browser-automation wrapper, and it fails the brief's programmatic-access filter as written. Also, the access path is Perplexity's own readers — 'Support isn't guaranteed for every file type, so a file Perplexity cannot parse is stored without being searchable or actionable', i.e. opaque blobs get stored but are unusable and un-exportable via any documented route. |
| Notes | 5 GB per Project, 10,000 files per Project, 100 MB per file — identical on every plan, including free. Projects themselves: 'There's no limit on how many Projects you can create.' |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
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Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/12009761-enterpris | 'Every Project supports up to 10,000 files, 5 GB of total storage, and 100 MB per file. These limits are the same for all subscribers, regardless of plan'; table 'Total storage per Project | 5 GB' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/10352961-what-are- | 'There's no limit on how many Projects you can create.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/12009761-enterpris | 'Files uploaded to sessions are retained for 7 days, then deleted'; organization file repository 'retired on October 1, 2026' |
More fields (1)
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"why": "5 GB per Project, 10,000 files per Project, 100 MB per file — identical on every plan, including free. Projects themselves: 'There's no limit on how many Projects you can create.'",
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"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
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