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  • QVeris AI ×
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Comparator · Research & search

Starting price$19 · $10/mo
Free tieryes · yes
Plans documented4 · 7
Platforms2 · 2
Comparison of QVeris AI, Perplexity
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Category Research & search Research & search
Main use cases
  • Pull company financials into an AI assistant
  • Search papers and patents
  • Look up product and price data
  • Connect data via MCP
  • Build agents with SDKs
  • Researching questions with cited sources
  • Tracking current events
  • Comparing products or options
  • Building search-grounded apps via API
Best for Developers building AI agents, Researchers needing data access Researchers, Students, Journalists, Developers building search features
Platforms Web, API Web, API
Pricing model Freemium Freemium
Pricing

Free: 1,000 one-time credits; Pro $19 (10,000 credits, billing period not stated); Scale top-ups from $1.

Checked Sep 29, 2026. Official pricing ↗

Free plan; Pro and Max paid plans; Enterprise for organizations. Viewed from outside the US, the pricing page showed Pro at $17/month and Max at $167/month (annual-billing equivalents). US monthly prices not confirmed — see official pricing.

Checked Sep 30, 2026. Official pricing ↗

Key features
  • Hosted MCP server
  • REST API
  • Python and JS SDKs
  • CLI
  • Playground
  • Usage analytics
  • Answers with inline source citations
  • Real-time web search
  • Deep research reports
  • Choice of AI models from several labs on paid plans
  • Perplexity Computer for building documents and apps
  • Search, Agent and Embeddings APIs
Pros
  • 1,000 free trial credits on signup
  • Discover and Inspect always free
  • Purchased top-up credits do not expire
  • Pro plan $19
  • Every answer links to its sources so claims can be checked
  • Free plan available to start
  • Paid plans offer models from multiple AI labs in one place
  • Developer APIs with published usage-based pricing
Limitations
  • Free tier limited to 10 req/min
  • Calls billed per capability rules
  • Pro includes 10,000 credits, then $0.002/credit overage
  • Account sign-in required
  • Answers can still misread or misattribute sources
  • Deep research and model choice need a paid plan
  • API is billed separately by tokens and requests
  • Promotional credit offers change often, so check current terms
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Review status Listed

Verified Oct 1, 2026

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Verified Sep 30, 2026