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Perplexity - AI Search & Chat earns about
$5.98M/month
range $3.29M – $8.67M · $71.73M/year
Live data · refreshed every hour
Per Day
$199.3K
$109.6K – $288.9K
Per Week
$1.39M
$767.1K – $2.02M
Per Month
$5.98M
$3.29M – $8.67M
Per Year
$71.73M
$39.45M – $104.01M
Lifetime
$179.32M
$98.63M – $260.02M
Brand revenue
≈ Estimated
Perplexity AI - full brand revenue
Annual brand revenue (2024)
$80M/year
App Store / Play Store share
90%
≈ $72M/year of in-app revenue
Off-store revenue (everything else)
$8M/year
10% of total brand revenue
Perplexity AI earns about $80M/year in total brand revenue.
App Store and Play Store revenue make up a meaningful share of total brand revenue for Perplexity AI - the gap to corporate revenue is small.
App store revenue (in-app purchases, subscriptions, ads, paid downloads)
Off-store revenue (trading fees, commissions, web subscriptions, ad sales, enterprise)
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Auto-generated from this app's real revenue ($5.98M/month · $71.73M/year), monetization model, rating signals and category. Every line is calibrated to this app, not generic advice.
55/100
Opportunity
45/100
Cloneability
$9
Revenue / install
✓ Features to copy
- subscription paywall (~$16.67/mo) - proven monetization
- in-app purchase tier ladder for upsells
- AI/LLM as the core feature loop (use OpenAI/Anthropic API)
⚡ Improve / fix
- subscription is $16.67/mo - undercut by 30-50% to win price-sensitive users
🛠 MVP scope
- LLM API integration
- prompt template store
- usage tracking
- paywall after N free requests
- history view
💰 Pricing recommendation
Perplexity - AI Search & Chat charges ~$16.67/mo. Competitive entry: $10.00/mo or annual at $60/year (50% off annual is the standard hook).
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📺 TikTok / ad hook angles
- "I tried Perplexity - AI Search & Chat for 30 days - here's what I'd do differently"
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- "The productivity app Perplexity - AI Search & Chat won't tell you these 3 things"
Monetization
Subscription (~$16.67/mo, ai) · calibrated by US grossing rank #75Revenue mix (estimated)
- Subscriptions ~72%
- One-time IAP ~22%
- Ads ~6%
Paying users (est.)
20.6M installs · 47.2% active · 2.7% pay
Profile: AI / chatbot
In-App Purchases 6
- Annualest. Perplexity Max $200.00 /year ~$16.67/mo
- Subscription Perplexity Pro2 tiers $20.00 – $200.00 range
- One-time 500 Credits $5.00 one-time
- One-time 1,000 Credits $10.00 one-time
- One-time 2,500 Credits $25.00 one-time
- One-time 5,000 Credits $50.00 one-time
6 tiers scraped live from the App Store.
App Details
Pulled from the App Store- Current Version
- 26.18.0
- Released
- Mar 27, 2023
- Last Updated
- May 8, 2026
- File Size
- 174.3 MB
- Required OS
- 17.0
- Content Rating
- 17+
- Category
- Productivity
- Price
- Free
- Currency
- USD
- Languages
- SQ, Arabic, BN, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, JV, KN, KK, Korean, MK, Malay, ML, MR, NB, NN, Polish
- Developer
- Perplexity AI, Inc.
What's new in v26.18.0
Bug fixes and improvements.
Fun Numbers - share these
$2
every second
$138
every minute
$8.3K
every hour
$199.3K
every day
- ☕ Buys 40K $5 coffees every day
- 👨💻 Pays for 398 senior engineer salaries per year
- 🚗 Earns enough for 2K Tesla Model 3s annually
- ⏱️ Earns the price of a coffee in 2 seconds
12-Month Revenue Trajectory
Modeled from grossing rank, app score, and update cadence. Hover any point to see the value. Real growth depends on retention, marketing, and seasonality.
Estimated Installs
20.6M
estimated from 458,509 ratings
Active Users (MAU est.)
9.7M
47.2% of installs · ai profile benchmark · iOS large-install decay × 0.75
US Grossing Rank
#75
Live from App Store top-grossing chart
Monetization
Subscription (~$16.67/mo, ai) · calibrated by US grossing rank #75
Rating Distribution
5★
415K
4★
27K
3★
7K
2★
2K
1★
7K
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How much money does Perplexity - AI Search & Chat make on the App Store? ⌄
Perplexity - AI Search & Chat has an estimated App Store revenue of $5.98M per month (~$71.73M per year, $199.3K per day) with a likely range of $3.29M to $8.67M. This includes earnings from in-app purchases, subscription revenue, ads and any paid downloads - all directional estimates from public App Store signals, not private Apple financial data.
How many App Store downloads does Perplexity - AI Search & Chat get? ⌄
Apple does not publish exact App Store download counts. Using public ratings (459K reviews), grossing rank, category position and the standard 1:75 ratings-to-downloads ratio, Rev.now estimates about 20.6M total iOS downloads for Perplexity - AI Search & Chat - and roughly 9.7M monthly active users on iPhone and iPad.
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Rev.now estimates Perplexity - AI Search & Chat App Store revenue from public app data: estimated downloads, monthly active users (MAU), the iOS conversion rate to paying users, subscription pricing detected on the listing, in-app purchase tiers, ad monetization (eCPM × impressions × MAU) and the Productivity category ARPU benchmark - net of Apple's 15-30% store cut.
What in-app purchases and subscriptions does Perplexity - AI Search & Chat offer on iOS? ⌄
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