Perplexity Pro just got smarter: 5 features you need to try

After Bharti Airtel announced that it is giving away a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription to eligible users in India, the app beat ChatGPT to become the number one free app on iOS. Unlike traditional AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, Perplexity is a web search engine that uses AI to search for information on the internet and present it in an easy-to-understand format.

The company says that in order to generate accurate responses, it uses different large language models like GPT-4.1, Claude 4.0 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro. If you have recently claimed the free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, here are five features that you should try right now.

Pro search

Compared to the free version of Perplexity, Pro users not only get more searches per day, but also get access to the company’s Pro Search feature. The functionality allows Perplexity Pro subscribers to make use of advanced AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Claude 4.0 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro. In case you don’t like the outputs generated by these models, you can switch to Sonar, a large language model developed by Perplexity itself.