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Perplexity - AI Search & Chat earns about
$7.59M/month
range $4.17M – $11.00M · $91.03M/year
Live data · refreshed every hour
Per Day
$252.9K
$139.1K – $366.7K
Per Week
$1.77M
$973.5K – $2.57M
Per Month
$7.59M
$4.17M – $11.00M
Per Year
$91.03M
$50.07M – $132.00M
Lifetime
$227.58M
$125.17M – $329.99M
Brand revenue
≈ Estimated
Perplexity AI - full brand revenue
Annual brand revenue (2024)
$80M/year
App Store / Play Store share
99%
≈ $91M/year of in-app revenue
Off-store revenue (everything else)
$0/year
1% 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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A specific clone-and-improve plan for Perplexity - AI Search & Chat
Auto-generated from this app's real revenue ($7.59M/month · $91.03M/year), monetization model, rating signals and category. Every line is calibrated to this app, not generic advice.
55/100
Opportunity
45/100
Cloneability
$11
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"
- "Why Perplexity - AI Search & Chat costs $16.67/mo when ours costs $10.00"
- "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 #77Revenue mix (estimated)
- Subscriptions ~72%
- One-time IAP ~22%
- Ads ~6%
Paying users (est.)
20.5M installs · 62.9% active · 2.5% 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
- 26.17.0
- Released
- Mar 27, 2023
- Last Updated
- May 5, 2026
- File Size
- 174.5 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 v26.17.0
Bug fixes and improvements
Fun Numbers - share these
$3
every second
$176
every minute
$10.5K
every hour
$252.9K
every day
- ☕ Buys 51K $5 coffees every day
- 👨💻 Pays for 506 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
20.5M
estimated from 456,454 ratings
Active Users (MAU est.)
12.9M
62.9% of installs · ai profile benchmark
US Grossing Rank
#77
Live from App Store top-grossing chart
Monetization
Subscription (~$16.67/mo, ai) · calibrated by US grossing rank #77
Rating Distribution
5★
415K
4★
26K
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 $7.59M per month (~$91.03M per year, $252.9K per day) with a likely range of $4.17M to $11.00M. 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 (456K reviews), grossing rank, category position and the standard 1:75 ratings-to-downloads ratio, Rev.now estimates about 20.5M total iOS downloads for Perplexity - AI Search & Chat - and roughly 12.9M monthly active users on iPhone and iPad.
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What in-app purchases and subscriptions does Perplexity - AI Search & Chat offer on iOS? ⌄
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