Plain-language provider view: what this company is strongest at, how many active models it has, what pricing we can verify, and which current models matter most.
7
Models
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Top Rank
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Avg Capability
60.9K
Downloads
367
Likes
5
Open Models
Pricing Posture
0 / 7 models have official company pricing
This tells you how often we can verify direct first-party pricing instead of only broker or router pricing.
Lowest Verified Entry
Free/M
The lowest reliable public price we could verify across this provider's active lineup.
Strategic Strength
Specialized
pplx-embed-v1-0.6b leads current estimated value at ---.
Deployment Reach
4 / 7 models have verified deploy or runtime access
2 on your computer · 0 cloud servers you control · 2 hosted for you
Open weights do not always mean easy hosted access. For perplexity-ai, they usually mean you bring the hardware yourself or rent a cloud GPU when the models are larger.
Most open models here can run on your own hardware.
4 easy personal-hardware fits · 1 desktop GPU fits · 0 cloud GPU fits · 0 high-memory cloud fits
Perplexity Pro
retrieval and search plus specialized
| # | Model | Category | Params | Capability | Downloads | Cheapest Verified | Est. Value | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | pplx-embed-v1-0.6b | Embeddings |
| — |
| 51.5K |
$20/mo Subscribe |
| --- |
| — | pplx-embed-context-v1-4b | Embeddings | 4B | — | 5.1K | Free Free | --- |
| — | pplx-pii-masking | Specialized | 596M | — | 2.0K | $20/mo Subscribe | --- |
| — | pplx-embed-v1-late-0.6b | Embeddings | 596M | — | 1.8K | Free Free | --- |
| — | pplx-qwen-3-8-27b-dflash2-20260819 | Specialized | 27B | — | 552 | Price not verified View Plan | --- |
| — | pplx-computer-qwen-3-8-27b-dflash2-gguf-20260826 | Specialized | 27B | — | 0 | Price not verified View Plan | --- |
| — | pplx-pii-masking-MLX | Specialized | Undisclosed | — | 0 | — | --- |