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- You have three ways to get a free Perplexity Pro subscription
- A free year is available if you’re a PayPal or Venmo user
- Government employees also get one year free
If you’re interested in upgrading your AI experience with one of the paid subscriptions available, take note because here’s your chance to score a free year. Tangle Pro,
Perplexity is a free AI chatbot and internet search tool that works like other AI chatbots. ZDNET’s Steven Vaughan-Nicholls named it his favorite chatbot, beating out ChatGPT and Copilot.
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Perplexity Pro gives you several upgrades on a free account. These include increased use of Pro Search, which breaks down queries with multi-step logic and programming; Option to choose which AI model you want to use; File Analysis, which lets you upload documents for summaries or insights; Multimodal capabilities, where you can take a photo or screenshot and ask questions about it; And image generation with Access Playground v3, OpenAI DALL-E 3, Flux, and Stable Diffusion XL.
The service usually costs $20 per month or $200 per year, but there are currently several ways to get a free subscription. Here’s what you need to know.
1. Free Perplexity Pro for Xfinity customers
Xfinity has a customer rewards program that is free to join. Rewards range from discounts on movie tickets to savings on theme parks and sporting events. A few months ago, Perplexity announced a partnership with Xfinity to give Xfinity customers a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription.
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Here’s how to claim your free Perplexity Pro subscription:
2. Free Perplexity Pro for Government Employees
If you are a government employee with a .gov email address, you can get a free one-year subscription. Set up your free Perplexity account with your .gov email, and you’ll see a banner on your Perplexity homepage prompting you to redeem a free year of Perplexity Pro.
3. Get free Tangle with your PayPal or Venmo account
Are you a PayPal or Venmo user? You can get a full year of Pro completely free when you connect your PayPal account and choose a valid billing method. go to this link To start. There are some caveats with this.
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This offer is only for new customers, so if you already have a paid subscription, you won’t be able to claim it. Second, you only have until December 31 to make a claim. Third, you get instant access only if your PayPal or Venmo account was created before September 1st. If you made it after this, you will have to wait 30 days.
