Perplexity has just made it a lot easier for big companies to pay for its AI: Perplexity API credits are now available directly through AWS Marketplace, so enterprises can buy usage the same way they already buy other AWS services.

Instead of signing a separate contract or onboarding a new vendor, teams can now spin up Perplexity credits through their existing AWS account, with everything rolled into the same AWS invoice their finance and procurement teams already understand. The credits work like a prepaid balance: they’re denominated 1:1 with US dollars, start at around $1,000 for a one‑month contract on AWS Marketplace, and are drawn down automatically as you make API calls.

Those credits aren’t locked to a single product either. Once linked to a Perplexity account, they fund usage across all of Perplexity’s core APIs—Sonar for web‑grounded answers, the Agent API for orchestrating models from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, Search API for raw web results, and Embeddings for vector search and recommendation use cases. For developers already building on Perplexity, this effectively turns AWS into another billing “front end”: the technical integration stays the same, but finance teams get centralized procurement, predictable budgets, and clear token‑based pricing per model and tool.

The move also fits neatly alongside Perplexity’s broader enterprise push on AWS, where it already offers Enterprise Pro as a managed answer engine via AWS Marketplace and leans on AWS infrastructure (including services like Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic Claude) for performance and security. For large organizations that have strict compliance workflows and prefer to whitelist only AWS Marketplace vendors, having Perplexity’s API credits available there lowers the friction to pilot or scale AI features—whether that’s powering internal research tools, customer support copilots, or search experiences inside existing products.