Student offers · Perplexity
Updated · By llmwise, AI-assisted.
Perplexity for students: the terms and the dates
Perplexity's Education Pro costs $10 a month for students and educators verified by SheerID, against $20 for Pro, and includes everything in Pro. Perplexity gives no end date for it. The models Pro names include Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-6 Sol and Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Perplexity's student offer, region by region
Perplexity's terms, checked September 28, 2026. Offers like these end and come back each school year.
| Where | What you get | Claim by | Then | First year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wherever SheerID can verify you | Education Pro: everything in Pro, at a discount | No date given | $10 a month | $120 |
Who qualifies, in Perplexity's words
“Education Pro is offered to verified students and educators at a discount.”
“Education Pro ($10/mo with verification from SheerID).”
Source: Perplexity Help Center: Which Perplexity Subscription Plan is right for you?
“Perplexity accounts can be created with any email (personal or student).”
What does a student budget buy, per message?
llmwise has no student price: Pro is $20 a month, $240 a year. Here's what one message costs on it if the month goes to that model, and 60 everyday messages a day on top.
| Model | On llmwise Pro | A message at the lowest |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Up to 125 a month | $0.16 |
| GPT-6 Sol | Up to 125 a month | $0.16 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) | Up to 125 a month | $0.16 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Up to 31 a month | $0.65 |
| GPT-6 Astra | Up to 31 a month | $0.65 |
Every limit is published. Paid plans also have a monthly fair-use limit on AI cost: Plus $3.75, Pro $7.50, Max $20, Ultra $42, Studio $85. Using every message on your plan at typical sizes stays under it; very large messages and heavy research use it faster. Every limit, explained.
Does Perplexity use your chats for training?
These are Perplexity's terms for personal accounts, read September 28, 2026. A school-managed account may have its own. llmwise, for its part, doesn't train on anyone's chats, and keeps each until you remove it.
| App | Trains on them | To stop it | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | Yes, until you switch it off | Turn off the AI Data Usage toggle in Settings | Not stated on the page we read |
“Yes, we use this data to improve the search experience for our users.”
Quoted from Perplexity Help Center: What data does Perplexity collect about me?
“If you wish to opt out, go to your profile, navigate to the AI Data Usage toggle under Settings, and turn it off to stop Perplexity from using your search data to enhance our AI models.”
Quoted from Perplexity Help Center: What data does Perplexity collect about me?
How did these models do on our test prompts?
The budget table's models, each given 50 test prompts: writing, math, summarizing, data analysis and coding among them.
| Job type | Claude Sonnet 5 | GPT-6 Sol | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Claude Fable 5.1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing | 4 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Summarization | 3 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Data analysis | 4 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Support replies | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Translation | 5 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Total | 46 of 50 | 45 of 50 | 49 of 50 | 45 of 50 | 48 of 50 |
Every one of them passed in full on coding, math, SQL, answering from documents, and tool use. From our test runs of September 27, 28, 29 and October 2, 7, 8, 9, 15, 2026: 5 prompts per job. Every prompt, with the replies.
Other student offers
Also from primary sources: SheerID's Perplexity offer page (Pro at $10 a month for verified students and educators). Read .
Perplexity for students: questions
How much is Perplexity Pro for students?
$10 a month, Perplexity's help center says (checked September 28, 2026), with verification from SheerID; any email works for the account.
What does Education Pro include?
Everything in Pro, Perplexity says: Perplexity Computer, Learn Mode, file and image uploads and its advanced models, plus education-specific tips.
When Perplexity's student offer ends
llmwise has no student price: Pro is $20, with up to 250 DeepSeek V4 Pro messages a month. The 5-message trial needs no card and no student ID.