Provider guide

Connect Perplexity to Stax.

Monthly upload

Perplexity Enterprise chat seats (Pro, Max) live in the admin console only — no programmatic billing API. API spend has "API Groups" for project separation but no public usage endpoint either. Stax tracks Perplexity through a monthly invoice upload.

Auth

None today

Admin console export

Cadence

Monthly

~30 sec / month

API spend

Prepaid

Credits = USD

Chat seats

UI-only

Flat per-seat pricing

Upload flow not yet built. The dashboard's invoice upload form is on the v0.2 roadmap (target: week 4-6 post-launch). Until then, email your Perplexity invoice or API Groups screenshot to [email protected] and we'll import it manually within one business day.

Step 1

Pull your monthly billing data.

Perplexity has two billing surfaces depending on what you use:

A. Chat seats (Enterprise Pro / Max)

Open the Billing section.
Download the most recent invoice PDF.
Note the plan tier — Enterprise Pro at $40/seat/mo or Enterprise Max at $325/seat/mo (2026 rates).

B. Perplexity API spend

Open API Groups (if you've set them up) to see usage broken out by named group.
Take a screenshot of the current period's totals, or download the invoice when it issues at month end.
The dashboard shows credits remaining; one credit equals one US dollar of API spend.

Step 2

Upload to Stax.

When the upload flow ships, drag the PDF or screenshot into /app → Providers → Perplexity → Upload invoice. Stax will identify the line items and add them to your dashboard.

Until then, the manual route is:

Email what you have to [email protected] with subject Perplexity import.
Tell us your tier and whether you want API spend tracked alongside seats.
Get a confirmation reply within one business day.

Step 3

What you'll see after the import.

Monthly chat-seat cost in USD (seats × plan price).
API spend in USD, broken out by API Group if you've configured them.
A note that Comet (Perplexity's browser product) usage is bundled into Enterprise seat pricing — no separate line item, by design on Perplexity's side.
Month-over-month comparison once you've uploaded at least two months.

Per-user attribution within an API Group is not available — group-level is the finest granularity Perplexity exposes.

About proxying API traffic

It's technically possible to track Perplexity API usage in real time by proxying your application's requests through Stax — Perplexity returns usage info in response headers. We've chosen not to ship this in v1 because routing your production AI traffic through a third party adds latency and a new failure mode. Monthly upload is the right tradeoff until Perplexity ships a proper admin API.

Common errors

No admin access

You're a member, not an admin. Enterprise billing pages are admin-only. Ask your workspace admin to pull the invoice.

Credits remaining only

The dashboard shows what's left, not what's been spent. Subtract from the starting balance to get spend for the period — or just wait for the month-end invoice, which states the consumed total directly.

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