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Perplexity Enterprise Pricing Model Breaks Down Under Agentic Workflows
A 250-person organization testing Perplexity's MCP integration discovered that per-token billing for search context creates unpredictable costs when agents retry, rephrase, and validate queries in parallel.
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Perplexity's enterprise pricing model, designed for human-driven search workflows, is generating cost surprises when deployed in agentic environments like Claude Code and Cursor. An organization of approximately 250 people evaluating the Perplexity MCP integration reported that retrieval context bil...
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