As part of a back-to-school promotional program, Purdue University faculty, staff and students with a purdue.edu address have free access to Perplexity Pro AI for one year. Users with an active Purdue University email address can sign up and redeem this anytime before December 31, 2024.

From September 1-15, 2024, Perplexity.ai ran a back-to-school promo where students who signed up with a .edu email received 3 months free of Perplexity Pro. If 500 people from the same school signed up, everyone at the institution received a free year of Perplexity Pro. Purdue  surpassed that goal, and so Perplexity Pro is now free for a year for everyone signing up with a Purdue.edu email address.

A Perplexity Pro subscription normally costs $20 per month for access to the premium subscription. 

According to the Perplexity.ai website: “Perplexity Pro is our premium subscription that supercharges your research capabilities. With Pro, you get access to top AI models like GPT-4 Omni and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, all in one subscription. You also get a much greater number of daily Pro Searches and file uploads, empowering you to power through complex academic queries, in-depth analysis, and tricky math or coding problems faster than ever.”

Sign up for a free subscription using your purdue.edu email address: https://www.perplexity.ai/backtoschool