# Perplexity Projects

> perplexity.ai | Crawling, Storage; 2 records: free tier, limits, identity cost and evidence.

HTML https://fshy.ajam.dev/p/perplexity/ | JSON https://fshy.ajam.dev/api/v1/entity/perplexity.json | how to read a record: https://fshy.ajam.dev/llms-full.txt

## Perplexity

- `crawler-scraper/perplexity` | paid-only | evidence documented | binding request-rate | category search API
- needs card yes, phone no, ID no, institution no | verified 2026-10-22 (live) | stale on 2026-11-22
- url https://docs.perplexity.ai/getting-started/pricing
- free tier: none: the Search API is billed per successful request from the first one | unit: requests | metered on: request-count | read on: 2026-10-22 | source: [1]
- per-object cap: not applicable | source: [1]
- retention: not applicable: nothing is stored | source: [1]
- egress: not applicable | metered: no | source: [1]
- identity: card | detail: billing is required before the first call
- interface: rest
- limits:
  - request-rate (binding): USD 5.00 per 1,000 search requests; Fast Search USD 1.00 per 1,000 [1]
- interface detail: REST Search API, one billing unit per successful POST /search whatever the query count
- tooling: not stated
- composes with: Unaffordable without a balance
- reliability: no reliability event recorded
- notes: The platform's status.json shows a spent credit for this provider and no limit, consistent with a prepaid balance rather than a free tier.
- evidence:
  - [1] 2026-10-22: Search API USD 5.00 and Fast Search USD 1.00, charged per successful POST /search; a request with up to five queries is one billing unit
- sources:
  - [1] https://docs.perplexity.ai/getting-started/pricing

## Perplexity Projects (formerly Spaces) — persistent file repository

- `storage/perplexity-projects-persistent-file-repository` | fails-egress | evidence reported | binding per-object-cap | category AI answer engine / project files
- needs card no, phone no, ID no, institution no | verified 2026-10-21 (inherited) | stale on 2026-11-05
- url https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/12009761-enterprise-file-limits
- free tier: 5 GB per Project, 10,000 files per Project, 100 MB per file — identical on every plan, including free. Projects themselves: 'There's no limit on how many Projects you can create.' | unit: GB | metered on: unstated | read on: 2026-10-21 | source: [1]
- per-object cap: 100 MB per file | bytes: 100000000 | source: [1] | note: not stated
- retention: Session uploads (not Projects) are 40-50 MB/file and are deleted after 7 days — do not confuse the two | days: 7 | source: [1] | note: not stated
- egress: No egress concept — files are read by the model or viewed in-app, not served over a shareable URL. | metered: no
- identity: email | detail: email
- interface: unknown
- limits:
  - per-object-cap (binding): 100 MB per file [1]
  - per-object-cap (binding): 50 MB/file [1]
  - retention-clamped: deleted after 7 days [1]
- limits note: per-object-cap 100 MB. Session uploads (not Projects) are 40-50 MB/file and are deleted after 7 days — do not confuse the two. Projects created before Aug 2026 may exceed 5 GB and then refuse new uploads.
- interface detail: Web UI only for consumer. No public Files API. Enterprise has File Connectors and an organization repository (being retired 2026-10-01).
- tooling: None for storage. Unofficial browser automation only.
- composes with: Unlimited Projects x 5 GB each. Projects are the multiplicative axis and the help centre states the cap is absent. Unlike NotebookLM, adding a Project costs nothing and there is no account-wide byte wall documented.
- reliability: Projects retain files 'until deleted', which is the good half. Also, the access path is Perplexity's own readers — 'Support isn't guaranteed for every file type, so a file Perplexity cannot parse is stored without being searchable or actionable', i.e. opaque blobs get stored but are unusable and un-exportable via any documented route.
- notes: the same as the free tier
- extras:
  - dead_end.failure_class: quota
  - dead_end.why: 5 GB per Project, 10,000 files per Project, 100 MB per file — identical on every plan, including free. Projects themselves: 'There's no limit on how many Projects you can create.'
  - dead_end.first_recorded: 2026-10-21
- evidence:
  - [2] 2026-10-21: 'Every Project supports up to 10,000 files, 5 GB of total storage, and 100 MB per file. These limits are the same for all subscribers, regardless of plan'; table 'Total storage per Project | 5 GB'
  - [1] 2026-10-21: 'There's no limit on how many Projects you can create.'
  - [2] 2026-10-21: 'Files uploaded to sessions are retained for 7 days, then deleted'; organization file repository 'retired on October 1, 2026'
- sources:
  - [1] https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/10352961-what-are-projects
  - [2] https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/12009761-enterprise-file-limits