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Perplexity AI
Pharmaceutical industryPerplexity for pharmaceutical industry
US AI search engine that delivers answers with source citations via its own Sonar models and external frontier models, with separate Enterprise agreements on data use.
Perplexity is not on our list for the pharmaceutical industry. Usable for general work, but first look at the options we recommend for the pharmaceutical industry.
- GDPR profileOur summary of what the provider itself publishes about your data: EU hosting possible, no training on your data for business use, and self-hosting available. Caution applies to a model with a documented problem, such as an investigation by a regulator. How we measure
- GDPR: Unknown
- QualityQuality from blind duels on LMArena: users choose between two anonymous answers. A difference of about 20 points is noticeable, a few points is noise. How we measure
- –Elo, independent
- Editorial scoreOur own assessment on 10 of suitability for professional work, price and privacy. This is a judgement, not a measurement; that is why it always sits alongside the Elo. How we measure
- 8,0
- Entry price
- Free
What Perplexity does in the pharmaceutical industry
- Finding and optimising targets, proteins and candidate molecules with AI models
- Setting up clinical studies: recruiting patients, recording source data and monitoring data quality
- Drafting regulatory documents (protocols, CSRs, dossiers) with traceable sources
- Processing adverse event reports, coding them and detecting safety signals
- Answers with source citations based on live web information
- Access to multiple frontier models within one subscription
- Deep Research and Labs for in-depth reports
- Enterprise: SOC 2 Type II, no training on business data
The maker of Perplexity publishes little about data protection. Ask about this before you put confidential pharmaceutical industry data into it.
Confidentiality and GDPR
GDPR: UnknownThis sector involves health data of trial participants and patients (special category personal data under Article 9 GDPR) and confidential research data. Ask every provider where the data is stored and whether it is used to train models: Castor hosts in the Netherlands (Google Cloud europe-west4) and does not share data or models between customers, Cradle states that source data never goes to third-party AI models, Iris.ai hosts on AWS in Ireland and Germany. Biolevate and Ennov also run in private cloud or on-premises. With Veeva Vault AI and Yseop, texts go to Anthropic models via Amazon Bedrock; check the region and the data processing agreement. If you work in GxP processes, an AI tool must also be validated (EU GMP Annex 11) and a competent employee remains responsible. For AI in medicines development, the EMA has a reflection paper (2024) and is working with the FDA on joint principles.
Enterprise plans and the Sonar API are not trained on customer data (SOC 2 Type II; API with zero data retention). For consumer accounts, data use for model improvement can be switched off in the settings.
Prices
Other models for the pharmaceutical industry
Claude for the pharmaceutical industryAnthropic · editorial 9.01506
Gemini for the pharmaceutical industryGoogle · editorial 8.61527
ChatGPT for the pharmaceutical industryOpenAI · edition 8.91485
Copilot for the pharmaceutical industryMicrosoft · editorial 8.31485We are not aware of a professional tool for the pharmaceutical industry that publicly runs on Perplexity.
Questions about Perplexity for the pharmaceutical industry
- Is Perplexity suitable for the pharmaceutical industry?
- Not specifically. Perplexity is not on our list for the pharmaceutical industry; it is broadly usable, but first look at the options we recommend for the pharmaceutical industry. Keep a professional in the loop for every use.
- May I put confidential data into Perplexity?
- This sector involves health data of trial participants and patients (special category personal data under Art. 9 GDPR) and confidential research data. Ask every provider where the data is stored and whether it is used to train models: Castor is hosted in the Netherlands (Google Cloud europe-west4) and does not share data or models between customers, Cradle states that source data never goes to third-party AI models, Iris.ai is hosted on AWS in Ireland and Germany. Biolevate and Ennov also run in a private cloud or on-premises. With Veeva Vault AI and Yseop, texts go to Anthropic models via Amazon Bedrock; check the region and the data processing agreement. If you work in GxP processes, an AI tool must also be validated (EU GMP Annex 11) and a competent person remains responsible. For AI in drug development, the EMA has a reflection paper (2024) and is working with the FDA on joint principles. Enterprise plans and the Sonar API are not trained on customer data (SOC 2 Type II; API with zero data retention). For consumer accounts, data use for model improvement can be switched off in the settings.
- What does Perplexity cost?
- There is Free (Free), Pro ($20 / month), Max ($200 / month), Enterprise Pro ($40 / seat / month). Check current prices on the official site.
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