Perplexity Enterprise Pro is Perplexity’s “workhorse” tier for teams and companies that want consumer-style AI speed, but with enterprise‑grade security, admin controls, and shared knowledge search.
What Enterprise Pro actually is
Think of Enterprise Pro as Perplexity Pro rebuilt for organizations: same fast AI search and creation tools, but layered with compliance, privacy guarantees, and knobs for IT and team leads. It’s designed for knowledge workers who spend their day digging through docs, wikis, emails, dashboards, and the wider web, and want an answer engine that can sit on top of all of that safely.
At a feature level, Enterprise Pro includes all the capabilities of a regular Pro subscription (advanced models, Research, Create files and apps, higher limits) plus org‑wide repositories, Spaces, user management, SSO, and stricter data controls. It’s priced per seat, so companies can roll it out to specific teams and manage licenses centrally.
Core value: why companies care
Perplexity’s pitch is time: it claims Enterprise Pro can deliver in 30 seconds what might take a knowledge worker 30 minutes with classic search or scattered AI tools. Instead of opening 15 tabs, hopping between Confluence, Google Drive, Notion, and the public web, users ask one question and get a sourced, synthesized answer that pulls from both internal files and online references.
A few practical examples of how teams use it day‑to‑day:
- A product manager asks, “What did we ship in Q3 that impacted churn?” and Enterprise Pro can blend public market data with internal release notes, spec docs, and CRM exports (when connected) into a readable answer.
- A legal team uploads a stack of contracts and asks for key risk clauses across them, with links back into the original PDFs.
- A sales engineer searches, “Do we have an existing integration pattern for Jira + Okta?” and surfaces internal implementation docs plus public docs, instead of DM‑ing five people.
The through‑line: it is built to compress research, ramp‑up, and “who knows this?” time across an organization.
Under the hood: models, search, and files
Model flexibility
Enterprise Pro lets users switch between multiple frontier models on demand, such as GPT-4/Omni‑class and Claude 3, depending on whether they need dense analysis or more conversational outputs. Enterprise‑tier documentation and Internal Knowledge Search also reference newer generations (e.g., GPT-5‑class and Claude Sonnet 4‑series) as part of the Pro/Enterprise model lineup, with the platform handling routing for Research‑type queries.
From a newsroom or data‑team perspective, that means:
- You can favor “deep reasoning” models for long research threads.
- You can use faster models for quick summarization or drafting.
The key is that the organization doesn’t have to choose a single model vendor; Enterprise Pro abstracts that away while keeping controls centralized.
File uploads and internal knowledge
Enterprise Pro goes beyond “attach a PDF to a chat” and into structured internal knowledge search.
There are three main layers:
- Organization repository: admins can upload up to hundreds of files into a central library (Enterprise docs cite 500‑file scale at the org level), which then become searchable sources for everyone in that org.
- Spaces: teams create Spaces (e.g., “Growth Experiments,” “Security Runbooks”), upload documents there, and run searches that are scoped to those files plus the web.
- Connectors: Enterprise Pro can plug into tools like Google Drive, Jira, GitHub and others through “File App Connectors,” letting the AI search across live systems instead of just static uploads.
On top of this, standard uploads in a thread are still supported for classic tasks like:
- Fact‑checking a report.
- Pulling key takeaways from a slide deck.
- Extracting tables, figures, or references from long PDFs.
Enterprise Pro keeps uploaded files only for a limited time (7 days) when used in ad‑hoc chats, which is important for organizations with strict retention rules.
Security, privacy, and compliance
For most enterprises, this is the make‑or‑break part, and Enterprise Pro is explicitly positioned around “your data stays yours.”
Data use and training
- Enterprise data is not used to train or fine‑tune Perplexity’s AI models.
- Contracts with third‑party model providers (like OpenAI and Anthropic) explicitly restrict training on Perplexity Enterprise data as well.
In practice, that means an organization’s prompts, files, and connectors are used solely to answer that organization’s queries, not to improve generic models.
Access controls and retention
Perplexity details several technical and process‑level safeguards:
- Access to production data is gated behind internal tools with strict authentication and access control.
- Usage data is collected only in aggregate and anonymized form.
- Uploaded files used for chat are retained for just seven days, after which they’re deleted.
For compliance, Enterprise Pro is backed by a SOC 2 Type II certification, which audits how the company handles security, availability, and confidentiality controls over time. Across Enterprise connectors (e.g., Jira, Linear), Perplexity emphasizes:
- End‑to‑end encryption.
- Strict data‑privacy guarantees.
- Granular, role‑based access controls that mirror the source system’s permissions (so a user only sees what they’re allowed to see in Jira, Linear, etc.).
If you’re in a regulated or security‑sensitive environment, the Trust Center centralizes details on policies, certifications, and architecture.
Admin tools, collaboration, and pricing
Enterprise Pro is built to be managed, not just “used by whoever swipes a credit card.”
Admin and IT controls
Admins get:
- User management: add, remove, and manage seats, with admins owning billing and access control.
- Single sign‑on (SSO): integration with identity providers so employees log in using existing corporate credentials.
- Usage analytics: enterprise collections highlight visibility into how teams are using Perplexity, which helps with governance and ROI tracking.
- Security configuration: organization‑level controls on file uploads, connectors, and data‑retention behavior.
On the collaboration side, Spaces function like shared workrooms where teams can keep ongoing threads, documents, and project‑specific knowledge organized. A central org repository, plus team‑level Spaces, gives companies a way to build internal “AI‑ready” knowledge bases without standing up a separate product.
Pricing and where it sits in the lineup
Perplexity positions Enterprise Pro above individual Pro but below Enterprise Max.
- Enterprise Pro includes all Pro features plus: trust‑center‑level privacy guarantees, per‑seat enterprise pricing, advanced seat management, org‑wide repositories, Internal Knowledge Search, and higher limits around files and Research.
- Enterprise Max adds further scale on Create files/apps and Research queries, deeper access to the latest models, and higher‑end capabilities like enhanced video generation.
Who Enterprise Pro is really for
If you strip away the branding, Enterprise Pro is aimed at any org where:
- People spend more time finding information than acting on it.
- There’s a maze of internal tools, docs, and SaaS apps.
- Security and privacy teams will only sign off on AI tools with clear guarantees and certifications.
That can be:
- Tech and product teams need fast synthesis across GitHub, Jira, design docs, and market research.
- Legal, compliance, and finance teams that want AI‑accelerated analysis, but only within strict data‑handling boundaries.
- Agencies, consultancies, and media orgs (like a newsroom) that live on research and long‑form output and need a common AI “front door” for staff, files, and web sources.
In other words: Enterprise Pro is the version of Perplexity you roll out when AI stops being a solo productivity hack and becomes part of how the whole company works—under the watchful eye of security, legal, and IT.
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