{"id":4288,"date":"2025-08-11T06:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/airtels-free-ai-offer-with-perplexity-faces-downgrade-charges-what-the-company-said-tech-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:43:35","slug":"airtels-free-ai-offer-with-perplexity-faces-downgrade-charges-what-the-company-said-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/airtels-free-ai-offer-with-perplexity-faces-downgrade-charges-what-the-company-said-tech-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel\u2019s Free AI Offer With Perplexity Faces Downgrade Charges: What The Company Said | Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-9496967\">\n<p><span class=\"jsx-730caffcddfd709\">Last Updated:<\/span><time class=\"jsx-730caffcddfd709\">August 11, 2025, 11:28 IST<\/time><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"asubttl-9496967\" class=\"jsx-4625396a04d15488 jsx-1361006394 asubttl-schema\">Airtel AI offer promises features worth Rs 17,000 from the Perplexity Pro version but it seems people are not sure if they get it<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jsx-45a692afa6f47900 artsharwrp\">\n<div id=\"artshare\" class=\"jsx-45a692afa6f47900 artshare\">\n<div class=\"jsx-45a692afa6f47900 stickdiv\">\n<div class=\"jsx-45a692afa6f47900 deskwrapstkdiv\">\n<div class=\"jsx-45a692afa6f47900 fontchange\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/dlxczavtqcctuei\/news18\/static\/images\/english\/font.svg\" height=\"30px\" width=\"30px\" alt=\"font\" class=\"jsx-45a692afa6f47900 lazyload\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"jsx-4625396a04d15488 jsx-1361006394 amimg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Airtel Users Get Free Perplexity Pro Subscription With AI Features Worth Rs 17,000 In India\" title=\"Airtel Users Get Free Perplexity Pro Subscription With AI Features Worth Rs 17,000 In India\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&amp;width=400&amp;height=225\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"jsx-4625396a04d15488 jsx-1361006394\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Airtel Users Get Free Perplexity Pro Subscription With AI Features Worth Rs 17,000 In India<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"0\" class=\"story_para_0\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Perplexity AI offer in India with Airtel plan has faced new charges which accuse the company of delivering Pro-Lite version of its premium plan to these subscribers. The Airtel AI offer is claimed to bring features worth Rs 17,000 with its one year plan but a recent post on Reddit said the performance of the supposed free AI offer was less than satisfactory. <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"1\" class=\"story_para_1\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">These charges clearly did not go down well with Perplexity who has reportedly denied these claims and promises that the free AI offer comes with all the premium features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"2\" class=\"story_para_2\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>Perplexity AI Airtel Offer: What The Company Said<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"3\" class=\"story_para_3\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Jesse Dwyer from the company was quoted saying this in a report, \u201cIt is absolutely false that Airtel customers get a different version of Perplexity Pro than our Pro subscribers. India is very dear to us as a company and we would hope to correct this misunderstanding for Indian readers.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"4\" class=\"story_para_4\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The quote in the <em>Financial Express<\/em> also cited concerns like misinformation about the company and how people are supposedly using it for their own engagement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"5\" class=\"story_para_5\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The statement was more or less warranted after the post said the free AI offer for Airtel users did not deliver on the full Perplexity AI package. The post claimed the Perplexity Pro version linked to Airtel numbers were slow, not citing sources and the answers were less than impressive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"6\" class=\"story_para_6\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Airtel users can access Perplexity Pro AI subscription for one year without any extra charges and it comes bundled with their mobile or broadband plan. You just need to claim the offer available through its app and enjoy the AI service and all its features.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"7\" class=\"story_para_7\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Perplexity Pro is a premium AI tier like ChatGPT Plus and Gemini AI Pro, offering a host of features and access to AI models like Claude and others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"8\" class=\"story_para_8\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>Airtel Perplexity Pro Offer: Features Worth Rs 17,000 For Free<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"9\" class=\"story_para_9\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Perplexity Pro offer is claimed to give you features worth Rs 17,000 for free, these are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"listOncontentArticleUL\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Run thousands of searches<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Choose from GPT 4.1, Gemini, Claude and more models<\/li>\n<li>Upload and analyse documents<\/li>\n<li>Generate AI images using DALL-E and Flux<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"11\" class=\"story_para_11\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Airtel says the offer can be redeemed only between July 17, 2025 and January 17, 2026 after which the free deal will not be available to its customers. 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