Claude Pro vs Perplexity Pro: price, limits and newest models

Claude Pro and Perplexity Pro both cost $20 a month, and both are $17 billed yearly. Neither publishes a count. Claude Pro is Anthropic's models, with Fable charged extra; Perplexity Pro lets you pick six models, Claude Sonnet 5 among them, for cited search. llmwise Pro ($20) has up to 125 Claude Sonnet 5 messages a month.

Checked September 28, 2026: Claude Help Center: What is the Pro plan?, Claude Help Center: Claude Fable models on your plan, Claude pricing, Perplexity pricing, Perplexity Help Center: What is Perplexity Pro? and Perplexity Pro.

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Claude Pro vs Perplexity Pro, side by side

Each company's figures, checked September 28, 2026; the quotes behind them are on each plan's page.

Claude Pro and Perplexity Pro side by side
	Claude Pro	Perplexity Pro
Price a month	$20	$20
Billed yearly	$17 a month	$17 a month
In India	Local price at checkout	Not published
Limits, in brief	No count; five-hour sessions and a weekly cap	No count; weekly Pro Search limits for average use
Newest models	Claude Fable 5.1: paid for separately; Claude Opus: in its chat; Claude Sonnet: in its chat; Claude Haiku: in its chat	GPT-6 Sol: in its chat; Gemini 3.8 Flash: in its chat; Claude Sonnet 5: in its chat; Kimi K3: in its chat; GLM 5.3: in its chat; Grok 4.7: in its chat
Also in the plan	“Claude Code” (Claude pricing)	“Every answer includes inline citations from trusted sources, so you can verify claims and make confident decisions.” (Perplexity Pro)

What limits do Anthropic and Perplexity publish?

“The number of messages you can send will vary based on message length, including the length of files you attach, the length of your current conversation, and the model or feature you use. Your session-based usage limit will reset every five hours.”
Source: Claude Help Center: What is the Pro plan?
“More usage limits and memory”
Source: Perplexity pricing

Should you pick Claude Pro or Perplexity Pro?

Research with sources
Perplexity Pro: every answer is cited.
Writing and code
Claude Pro: Claude Code and long chats with Opus.
Choosing per message
llmwise Pro: Claude's three models and Perplexity's six, each counted.

Do Anthropic and Perplexity train on your chats?

As each company's privacy pages put it on September 28, 2026. Neither question arises on llmwise: it doesn't train on your content, and you decide when a chat is deleted.

Claude Pro and Perplexity Pro: training and retention
App	Training on your chats	How to opt out	Retention
Claude	Only if you allow it	Leave Model Improvement off in Privacy Settings, or use Incognito chats	Deleted chats go within 30 days; up to 5 years, de-identified, if you allow training
Perplexity	Yes, unless you opt out	Turn off the AI Data Usage toggle in Settings	Not stated on the page we read

“You choose to allow us to use your chats and coding sessions to improve Claude”
Quoted from Anthropic Privacy Center: Is my data used for model training?
“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?

Both in one: llmwise Pro

llmwise Pro ($20) beside both plans. Its monthly counts assume the allowance goes to one model.

Claude Pro, Perplexity Pro and llmwise Pro: each model's count
Model	Claude Pro	Perplexity Pro	llmwise Pro
Claude Fable 5.1	Paid for separately, from the first message	Not offered	Up to 31 a month
Claude Opus 5.5	Included; Anthropic's table names the family, not the version	Not offered	Up to 62 a month
Claude Sonnet 5.5	Not named on its pages	Not offered	Up to 125 a month
GPT-6 Sol	Not offered: Claude only	You can pick it; Perplexity publishes no count	Up to 125 a month
Gemini 3.8 Flash	Not offered: Claude only	You can pick it; Perplexity publishes no count	Up to 250 a month
Claude Sonnet 5	Included on every plan	You can pick it; Perplexity publishes no count	Up to 125 a month

Behind Pro's counts is a $7.50 monthly ceiling on AI cost, its fair-use limit: typical use stays under it, and huge messages or deep research get there first. Every limit, explained.

Each plan on its own, and more pairs

Bar chart: Messages on llmwise Pro ($20 a month), by model. Gemini 3.8 Flash: up to 250 a month; Claude Sonnet 5.5: up to 125 a month; GPT-6 Sol: up to 125 a month; Claude Sonnet 5: up to 125 a month; Claude Opus 5.5: up to 62 a month; Claude Fable 5.1: up to 31 a month. — From llmwise's plans. Each bar gives one model the whole month; the everyday models are counted per day.

Claude Pro or Perplexity Pro: more questions

Does Perplexity Pro include Claude?

Perplexity names Claude Sonnet 5 on its Pro page, not Opus or Fable. Claude Pro has Opus, and Fable for an extra charge. llmwise Pro ($20) has all three: up to 62 Opus 5.5 messages a month.

Which is cheaper for students?

Perplexity: its Education Pro is $10 a month for verified students; Anthropic has no individual discount.

Claude Pro or Perplexity Pro? Ask Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Sol first

Both are on llmwise Pro ($20): up to 31 a month on Claude Fable 5.1, up to 125 a month on GPT-6 Sol. Ask one, then switch; the second answers with the whole chat in view.