{
  "$comment": "§New-2 Stage-2 extraction artifact for Perplexity. This file is the evidence behind every Perplexity number rendered anywhere on 0saas. If a field's confidence is not 'verified', the UI must render a link to the source, never a number.",
  "incumbent": "Perplexity",
  "source_url": "https://perplexity.ai/pro",
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-26",
  "extraction_method": "fetch official pricing page in-session (2026-10-26), extract plan cards + comparison table to strict JSON (no training-data recall)",
  "currency": "USD",
  "price_view_captured": "Pro card with bonus credits and annual price; the free account exists but exact allowances are not printed in the captured view.",
  "plans": [
    {
      "name": "Free",
      "price": "US$0",
      "price_period": "standard limits",
      "highlights": [
        "Free account confirmed",
        "Specific caps not printed (unconfirmed)",
        "Cited answers"
      ],
      "confidence": "unconfirmed"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pro",
      "price": "US$17",
      "price_period": "per month, annual billing",
      "highlights": [
        "4,000 bonus credits/month",
        "Higher model access",
        "File capabilities"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Higher tiers",
      "price": null,
      "price_period": "see source",
      "highlights": [
        "Team and enterprise options"
      ],
      "confidence": "unconfirmed"
    }
  ],
  "free_tier_ceiling_for_displacement_brief": {
    "claim": "The free ceiling is real but its exact numbers are unconfirmed here; the honest strategy is better questions and source audits, which no quota controls.",
    "confidence": "unconfirmed",
    "period_caveat": "Perplexity's page does not print exact free query caps in the captured view; no figure is asserted, and the source link is the receipt."
  },
  "field_confidence": {
    "free_tier_limit": "unconfirmed",
    "paid_tier_price": "verified",
    "per_feature_checkmarks": "unconfirmed"
  },
  "receipts": [],
  "next_check_due": "2026-11-25"
}