
Perplexity is now offering students across the globe free access to its premium AI tools through a new partnership with SheerID. The initiative, announced by SheerID, is designed to break down barriers to reliable information access and support academic research by providing up to two years of Perplexity Pro at no cost to eligible students.
Through SheerID’s secure verification system, students from 190 countries can confirm their academic status and get real-time access to Perplexity Pro’s suite of features. These include cited answers to any query, detailed reports through Deep Research, automated workflows via Perplexity Tasks, and hands-on learning tools like dashboards and apps within Perplexity Labs.
The verification process is built directly into Perplexity’s platform and follows a privacy-first approach, which makes sure that student data remains secure and isn’t sold or shared. Students can also extend their free access (up to 24 months) by referring peers.
However, this is not the first partnership from Perlexity that we have seen in recent times. For example, a week ago, Perplexity joined hands with Coinbase to bring real-time crypto market insights into its platform. This integration allows users to track live cryptocurrency prices and receive AI-generated explanations, making financial data more accessible and understandable.
Apart from that, the Grok 4 AI model is already available on the platform alongside other top-tier models like OpenAI’s o3 Pro and Claude 4.0 Sonnet Thinking, available to its Pro and Max subscribers.
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