Perplexity AI · AI · Pro plan · Monthly
Perplexity Pro ranges from $17.70/mo in Pakistan to $26.63/mo in United Kingdom: a 1.5× gap for the same plan. Perplexity’s answer engine; Pro is the paid individual plan.
14 storefronts iOS App Store 14 verified rows Updated Oct 20, 2026 Price history →
Card A · Absolute global floor
Source Verified$17.70/mo
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Rs 4,900 on iOS App Store
−11% vs US list price $20.00/mo
Apple’s payment-methods page lists no gift-card redemption for Pakistan. Accepted there: Apple Account balance (from adding funds); Most credit and debit cards.
Landed (tax incl.): $17.70/mo
Card B · Cheapest gift-card route
Source Verified$19.17/mo landed
🇨🇦 Canada · $25 via iOS App Store
Saves $9.93 a year vs the US
Apple Account balance can be funded by redeeming Apple Gift Card. Landed includes the median premium of 8.1% over face value at which SEAGM listed these cards on Oct 20, 2026. Pre-tax price.
Billing cycle
Switching plan or cycle re-sorts the table by 12-month difference versus the US. Landed cost is the list price, plus the reseller premium we observed for that store’s gift cards on gift-card routes. No tax is added: US, Canadian and Argentine list prices are pre-tax.
| Cheapest channel | Evidence · Payment | Checkout today | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Pakistan | iOS App Store | $17.70 Rs 4,900 | $17.70 tax incl. | −11% Cheapest | 24 h PPP $70.15 | Source Verified No gift cards | $27.56 | — |
| 2 Egypt | iOS App Store | $18.55 999.99 ج.م. | $18.55 tax incl. | −7% | 11 h PPP $120.99 | Source Verified No gift cards | $17.40 | — |
| 3 Canada | iOS App Store | $17.73 $25 | $19.17 pre-tax · +8% SEAGM | −11% | 38 min PPP $21.15 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | $9.93 | — |
| 4 Indonesia | iOS App Store | $19.33 Rp 349.000 | $19.33 tax incl. | −3% | 7.6 h PPP $73.95 | Source Verified No gift cards | $8.04 | — |
| 5 Argentina | iOS App Store | $20.00 US$ 20 | $20.00 pre-tax | 0% | 2.7 h PPP $42.33 | Source Verified No gift cards | $0.00 | — |
| 6 United States | iOS App Store | $20.00 $20 | $21.14 pre-tax · +6% SEAGM | US baseline | 27 min PPP $20.00 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | — | — |
| 7 Japan | iOS App Store | $18.93 ￥3,000 | $21.18 tax incl. · +12% SEAGM | −5% | 59 min PPP $31.87 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | -$14.16 | — |
| 8 India | iOS App Store | $21.03 ₹1,999 | $22.15 tax incl. · +5% SEAGM | +5% | 15 h PPP $99.83 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | -$25.79 | — |
| 9 Nigeria | iOS App Store | $22.43 ₦29,900 | $22.43 tax incl. | +12% | 33 h PPP $136.86 | Source Verified No gift cards | -$29.20 | — |
| 10 Mexico | iOS App Store | $21.63 $399 | $22.98 tax incl. · +6% SEAGM | +8% | 3.2 h PPP $38.27 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | -$35.78 | — |
| 11 Malaysia | iOS App Store | $24.47 RM 99.90 | $24.47 tax incl. | +22% | 4.0 h PPP $74.05 | Source Verified No gift cards | -$53.64 | — |
| 12 Germany | iOS App Store | $24.68 22 € | $25.69 tax incl. · +4% SEAGM | +23% | 49 min PPP $30.60 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | -$68.34 | — |
| 13 Poland | iOS App Store | $25.66 99,99 zł | $28.54 tax incl. · +11% SEAGM | +28% | 2.0 h PPP $52.35 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | -$102.51 | — |
| 14 United Kingdom | iOS App Store | $26.63 £20 | $28.59 tax incl. · +7% SEAGM | +33% | 59 min PPP $30.26 | Source Verified Gift cards sold | -$103.02 | — |
Landed = list price ÷ FX, plus the median premium one reseller (SEAGM) charged for that store’s gift cards when the route is gift-card funded and a price was observed. No tax is added; “pre-tax” rows (US, Canada, Argentina) get tax at checkout or on the card statement. vs US compares spot prices with the lowest US list price ($20.00/mo). 12-mo saving vs US = (US list price $20.00 − landed) × 12. Affordability = hours of GNI per capita (÷ 2,000 working hours) per month of use. Checkout votes are reader reports, one per route per day.
Perplexity Pro · Monthly · computed from 14 storefronts
Perplexity Pro stays close to one price across storefronts: the cheapest, Pakistan, is 11% below the US $20.00, and the most expensive, United Kingdom, is $26.63/mo (1.50×). The mean ($21.34) sits 4% above the median ($20.52), pulled up by the top quartile above $23.96. The standard deviation across 14 storefronts is $2.99 (σ/μ = 14%), a moderate band, with most storefronts near the middle; 8 of them sit within 10% of the median, and the middle half spans $19.03 to $23.96.
The three cheapest storefronts are Pakistan, Canada and Egypt; 7 storefronts charge more than the US, led by United Kingdom and Poland. It ranks third-widest of 5 products in its category, behind ChatGPT at 1.7×.
By region, MENA is the cheapest bloc (median −7% vs the US) and Europe the dearest (+28%); North America ranks 2 of 8. Neighbours disagree most in Southeast Asia: Malaysia charges 1.3× what Indonesia does.
Only iOS App Store prices are observed for Perplexity Pro so far.
The Pakistan floor has no Apple gift-card redemption listed; the cheapest gift-card route is Canada (iOS App Store) at $19.17 landed, $1.47 a month above the floor (SEAGM +8.1% vs face value). Apple Account balance can be funded by redeeming Apple Gift Card. 8 of 14 storefronts have gift cards for that store.
Measured in hours of GNI per capita (÷ 2,000 working hours), one month costs 27 min in the US but 33 h in Nigeria (73.2× the burden), worth $136.86 in IMF PPP dollars.
Spot USD price versus the US list price; hover a country for its local price.
Pakistan has the lowest nominal price at $17.70 per month through iOS App Store (−11% vs the US). Payment route: No gift cards.
Canada via iOS App Store: $19.17 per month landed. Source: Apple Account balance can be funded by redeeming Apple Gift Card; SEAGM +8.1% vs face value.
Across 14 storefronts the median is $20.52 and the mean $21.34, with a standard deviation of $2.99. The most expensive storefront (United Kingdom) charges 1.5× the cheapest (Pakistan).
27 min of GNI per capita in the US versus a cross-country median of 2.9 h, using GNI per capita divided by 2,000 working hours.
Prices are list prices read from each storefront or vendor page, converted at the 2026-10-20 exchange rate (open.er-api.com (latest) + currency-api archive (month-end history)). Only prices observed in the last 30 days are shown; storefronts we have not observed are left out rather than estimated. See methodology and data sources; download every row from open data.