Uber Eats gave me a year of Perplexity Pro, and maybe you can too

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Key Takeaways

  • Uber Eats and Perplexity Pro AI are currently running a promotion for Uber One subscribers in the U.S. and Canada.
  • As part of the promotion, eligible users will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro.
  • To claim your free subscription, check your email for a message with the subject “Uber One Exclusive: 1 Year of Perplexity Pro.”



Today, I was frantically scrolling through restaurants on Uber Eats, trying to decide in vain what to order for lunch, when I noticed there were ads on the app.

For some reason, while using the app, my mind always goes on autopilot mode and I don't pay attention to the ads even though they've been on for a while.

While the app isn’t packed with ads, and most of the ads are related to restaurants on the platform, it’s not a very clean experience. I was actually looking at the ads today when I noticed one about a free Perplexity AI promotion for Uber One subscribers.

Considering that Uber One will likely reach 12 million members by 2022 and continue to grow thereafter, we're pleased to announce that if you're already paying for Uber One, you can get Perplexity Pro (normally a $200 value) for free for one year. Note: The free promotion is only available to users in the US and Canada.


For those who don’t know, Perplexity AI is gaining ground in the AI ​​chatbot market and its main strengths are source transparency with answer citations, integration with other tools, flexibility in terms of AI model selection, etc. Think of it as a one-stop shop offering a range of advanced AI models in one place.

The tool allows you to switch between the default Perplexity model, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus, Llama 3.1 70B based Sonar Large and 3.1 405B based Sonar Huge, and most importantly, OpenAI's GPT-4o, as well as image generation features powered by Playground v3, DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion XL, and FLUX.1.



Uber Eats advertisement for a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro.

If you're already paying for Uber One, there's no harm in trying out Perplexity Pro for free: the platform doesn't ask for your billing details, so you won't be charged when your free subscription expires.

As mentioned above, in my case, the promotion appeared as a banner ad within Uber Eats. However, after researching the promotion, I realized that you don't necessarily have to apply for it from within the food ordering app. Perplexity actually published a blog post about the promotion on August 1, which AP didn't notice.


According to a post by the company, “eligible” Uber One members will be emailed a unique code to claim the promotion. I checked my inbox and lo and behold, I found an email from Uber dated August 1st with a unique code.

Screenshot of the Uber One x Perplexity promotional email.

Your email (the account linked to Uber) will sayExclusive to Uber One: Perplexity Pro 1-year planYou can apply for the promotion directly through the email. The promotion's terms and conditions state that the offer expires on October 31. You also need to be a current Uber One member to be eligible. Given that the terms and conditions are dated August 1, we presume that you must have had a valid Uber One membership before August, but we were unable to verify that. Elsewhere in the terms and conditions, it also states that users “must maintain a valid Uber One membership for the duration of the promotion.”


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