Perplexity Lands US Government Deal

Perplexity has secured a sweeping partnership with the United States government, positioning its enterprise AI platform as an official tool for federal agencies. The company says the deal makes it the first major AI firm to sign a direct, government-wide contract, giving federal workers access to its Enterprise Pro for Government product across departments.

The agreement is being executed through the General Services Administration. Under the terms, agencies can acquire Enterprise Pro for Government through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule at essentially no cost for up to eighteen months. Perplexity says it has also locked in long-term pricing commitments so agencies can budget around the service beyond the introductory period.

Perplexity frames the partnership as aligned with President Trump’s AI Action Plan and the GSA’s OneGov strategy for shared digital services. The company says tens of thousands of federal employees and servicemembers already use its tools.

The government edition of Enterprise Pro includes access to a roster of frontier models, including Perplexity Sonar, GPT, Claude and Gemini. These are supported by an internet-scale knowledge index and can be paired with an agency’s internal systems. Perplexity is pitching the model-agnostic architecture as a way for agencies to choose the right model for the right task while keeping continuity if individual providers become unavailable or fall out of compliance.

Perplexity points to a milestone from September 2025, when it became the first publicly available AI platform to extend secure-by-default guarantees to all federal users. The service is also one of only two platforms granted an AI Prioritization designation, which accelerates its FedRAMP approval through the cloud-native 20x pathway.

The company says it is proud to contribute to national capability and directs interested offices to its US Government hub for details on procurement through the GSA schedule.