The Study · dataset
The data behind Perplexity Pro limits
Every number in the shrinking $20 plan comes from this file: 1,024 public posts by Perplexity subscribers, gathered on July 19, 2026 and coded one by one. The file carries our annotations and the public permalinks. The posts themselves stay where their authors put them, one click away.
Cite this dataset
Okane Land (2026). Perplexity Pro limits: 1,024 coded subscriber posts [dataset]. https://okaneland.com/data/perplexity-pro-limits/ (CC BY 4.0)
What each row is
One row per post: a thread, a comment, or a review. Coding was a keyword first pass with a hand-checked
pass on top, so the topic counts undercount anything phrased in a writer's own words, and the
confidence column says which rows rest on an explicit first-person statement.
| column | meaning |
|---|---|
| source | which of the five channels the post came from |
| url | public permalink (thread or comment); App Store and Trustpilot rows link the venue, which has no per-review URLs |
| date | post date, YYYY-MM-DD |
| score | venue-native score: Reddit/HN points, review star ratings |
| tier | stated tier only: Pro, Max, API, free, or unknown when the author never says |
| topics | semicolon-joined topic codes, multi-label (codebook below) |
| verdict | keeping / cancelled / considering / unclear, from explicit statements |
| confidence | clear only when a first-person tier or verdict statement matched; else ambiguous |
Topic codes
| code | covers |
|---|---|
| limits_quota | usage limits, quotas, throttling |
| model_routing | selected model swapped or rerouted |
| billing_refund | charges, renewals, refunds |
| source_quality | answer quality, hallucinations |
| citation_accuracy | wrong or broken citations |
| deep_research | Deep Research / Labs |
| comet | Comet browser, Computer agent, credits |
| support | customer support experiences |
| price_value | price and worth-it talk |
| pro_vs_max | explicit Pro versus Max comparison |
| competitor_comparison | named alternative tools |
| other | no code matched |
Where the rows come from
| source | rows | coverage note |
|---|---|---|
| Reddit r/perplexity_ai | 359 | 19 threads read in full, of a 326-entry search index |
| community.perplexity.ai | 101 | 45 topics fetched of 276 matched; skews API developers |
| Hacker News | 394 | 345 pulled of 2,187 query hits, plus 10 story trees |
| App Store (iOS) | 150 | most-recent slice, 2026-06-26 to 2026-07-18 |
| Trustpilot | 20 | page 1 of 707 reviews; skews billing disputes |
Unreachable and therefore absent: Slickdeals (bot-blocked), TeamBlind (renders nothing without a session), Trustpilot pages 2 and up, Google Play individual reviews, and Discord. Search lanes, per-term match counts, and everything else about the gather method are in the study's method section.
The 19 Reddit threads read in full
- Perplexity is DELIBERATELY SCAMMING AND REROUTING users to other models
- Update on Model Clarity (CEO reply)
- PERPLEXITY IS STILL SCAMMING US WITH MODAL REROUTING!
- 99.89% Reduction in Research quota over night without any formal communication
- We've upgraded Deep Research in Perplexity (official)
- Perplexity Pro rate limits suddenly changed?
- Take the money and then slowly lower the limits..
- I feel like Perplexity Pro just isn't worth it anymore.
- What Happened to Perplexity?
- Just canceled Perplexity Pro. The quality drop and zero API perks...
- How is perplexity able to give so many things with pro?
- Is Perplexity Max/Computer worth it?
- Trying to figure out if max is worth it for my actual usage
- Perplexity Pro vs Max, Is Max Worth It for Nonprofits / Heavy Research
- Perplexity just leaked its system prompt
- Just got a year of Pro for Free (Italy promo)
- Pro free for a year by linking PayPal
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 now available for Pro and Max
- Pro plan is a SCAM, Max plan ($200) is worth every penny.
Read this before citing it
- Every channel here is self-selected. Complaint venues overweight the angry, the official forum overweights API developers, and nobody posts that their subscription worked today. Treat rankings as "what paying users bring up," never as shares of the user base.
- A large cohort held free-year promo subscriptions (PayPal, Venmo, Revolut, carriers), which were reportedly throttled hardest. The
tiercolumn cannot separate promo from paid unless the author said so. - The product changed during the window (routing episode Nov 2025, Deep Research quota cut Feb 2026, Pro search cut May 2026). Read every row against its
date. - Usernames and post text are deliberately absent. Verify any row by opening its permalink; quote authors from the source, with attribution, at quotation length.
The annotations are © Okane Land, released under CC BY 4.0: use them, cite the study. The underlying posts remain the property of their authors and platforms.