Announcing Premium Sources

The questions that shape business strategy require more than surface-level answers. Market sizing, competitive positioning, capital allocation, and investment decisions depend on professional-grade information.

Starting today, Computer can access select Statista, CB Insights, and PitchBook data directly as part of your research workflow. Premium Sources refers to paywalled professional data and research that is not available through standard web search. These are the same types of sources used by venture capital firms, private equity funds, hedge funds, and Fortune 500 strategy teams.

What is a premium source? 

Professional market and financial intelligence is typically available only through paid subscription services, creating an information gap between organizations that can afford enterprise data contracts and research agency fees and everyone else.

People and organizations pay for these sources because they change outcomes. Better data leads to more accurate market sizing, faster responses to competitive moves, clearer views of private and public companies, and higher conviction in important decisions.

By bringing these sources into Perplexity, we reduce the cost and complexity of accessing them. Premium Sources are available through Computer, where research queries can pull from the right source automatically. You get answers grounded in the same underlying data that powers institutional research, without needing separate contracts or integrations.

How it works

When you ask Computer a question that requires market research, it automatically identifies and pulls from the right premium source, no manual selection required. Ask about funding rounds, market size, sector performance, or company financials, and Computer brings in the relevant data.

Every data point is cited back to its original source so you can verify it and share it with confidence.

What they cover

PitchBook provides a broad collection of proprietary data and research covering the full investment lifecycle of private companies, across venture capital and private equity, private credit and bank loans, and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.

CB Insights will make over 8000 research reports available to Perplexity users, providing in-depth analysis of the startup and innovation landscape 

Statista provides expert-verified market sizing, consumer insights, and industry forecasts.

Who this is for

You can ask Computer to generate structured market research reports that answer specific executive-level questions using trustworthy data and premium sources. For example:

• "Run a PESTEL analysis for the US digital health market in 2026. What factors should a telehealth startup be aware of before entering the market?"
  
  

• "Map the top 10 players in the AI code assistant market by funding raised, headcount, and primary customer segment. Include GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codeium, and Tabnine."
  
  

• "Where does enterprise AI agent adoption sit on the technology S-curve today, and what does that imply for investment timing?"

Computer identifies which premium sources to use and turns these kinds of questions into detailed market views.

What’s coming next

We are also working on premium sources for healthcare and legal so you can bring the same level of rigor to clinical, regulatory, and legal research, and we are exploring premium news offerings as a future vertical.

Our goal is to keep increasing the accuracy and depth of the data behind every answer, so more of your important questions can be answered with the same sources professionals rely on.

Learn more at perplexity.ai/premium-sources