Perplexity CEO: $10K buys a trillion tokens at 1 cent/M, subsidies to go further
AravSrinivas · x · 2026-10-17
Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas did the math: at 1 cent per million tokens, $10,000 buys roughly a trillion tokens a month. He says the company will keep optimizing input caching and serving to subsidize input pricing well below 1 cent/million, lowering the cost floor for agent workloads.
Related event: Perplexity Launches Decisions API at 1 Cent per Million Tokens(3 posts)→
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