Want a free year of Perplexity Pro? Here's how to claim it (and why you should)

If you're an Uber One subscriber, here's a deal you'll want to know about.

Subscribing to Uber One for $9.99 per month gets you several benefits: no delivery fees for grocery and food orders, 6% Uber cash on eligible rides, restaurant discounts, and more. Now, there's one more benefit -- free access to an AI-powered chatbot and search tool.

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From now through October 31, Perplexity is offering eligible Uber One subscribers in the US and Canada a free year of Perplexity Pro.

If you're not familiar, Perplexity is a free AI chatbot and internet search tool that operates much like other AI chatbots. It's generally well-regarded for being reliable, accurate, and current. In fact, it's ZDNET Senior Contributing Editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols' favorite chatbot, beating out ChatGPT and Copilot.

Perplexity Pro is a premium subscription tier that provides access to basic search plus several other advanced features:

Pro Search: Perplexity's advanced search, which can break down queries into smaller steps and give more comprehensive and accurate searches

AI model flexibility: The option to switch between different advanced AI models, including Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, OpenAI's GPT-4o, and Perplexity's Sonar model

File analysis: The ability to upload PDFs, CSVs, and images for analysis

Image generation: Access to AI image generation models Playground v2.5, DALL-E 3, and Stable Diffusion XL

Perplexity Pro costs $20 per month, so the offer is worth $240. Perplexity says the offer is good while supplies last and only for US and Canadian subscribers.

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If you're a current Perplexity Pro subscriber hoping to cut your cost in half and get free Uber One in the process, you're out of luck, as the offer is only for current Uber One subscribers and new Perplexity Pro accounts. Your Uber One membership must be active throughout the duration of the promotion, and both accounts must use the same email address.

Eligible Uber One customers will get a special access code in their email that they can use to sign up on Perplexity's website.