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Airtel Ends Free Perplexity Pro AI Deal: Subscription Renewal Details

Monday, July 13, 2026
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Airtel Ends Free Perplexity Pro AI Deal: Subscription Renewal Details

Look, it’s happening. Airtel is cutting the cord on that free Perplexity Pro AI deal for their users in the next few days. It was bundled up with everything postpaid, prepaid, Wi-Fi plans. A year worth of access. Up to seventeen thousand rupees total, tied into those bundles last year.

And now everyone’s getting hit with these reminders. Notifications about the free offer renewing. Which means you have to decide something. Time to pull the plug if you don't want to keep using that AI chatbot across all your apps and accounts.

The notification itself is pretty blunt, I guess. Airtel users who signed up for that deal are getting this message: “Your annual Perplexity subscription is due for renewal. If you do not wish to continue, please cancel your auto-renewal mandate before the renewal date to avoid any additional charges.” Then there’s the instruction open the app, go to Profile Section, click View Details to Unsubscribe. Simple enough, but it feels tacked on now.

The real kicker is how this all unfolded. Back in December, they just changed things. They didn't really tell people beforehand. Just a direct mail hit. The subject line was kind of aggressive: “Action Required: Add a card to keep your Perplexity Pro trial.”

They claimed they were doing it to protect the free offer for legitimate users. That’s what they said. You need a payment method to continue, apparently. And then there’s the fine print your card only gets charged after the trial ends. Subscription renews automatically unless you cancel first. A standard setup, maybe.

So if you never put in those details? You can just ignore that little message. No big deal. But for everyone else who did add the card info? You need to move fast. Head over to Perplexity Pro account page right now and cancel before they bill you. Don’t wait for the charge.

It feels like a bait-and-switch, doesn't it? Starting with something free, making people sign up based on one promise, and then shifting the terms later. It didn't sit well with the users who just wanted to use the service they signed up for.

What was that offer worth, anyway? The Perplexity Pro stuff gave you access to a ton of heavy features. We’re talking thousands of searches. Choosing between models like GPT 4.1, Gemini, Claude all of them accessible. Plus, the ability to upload documents and analyze them. Even generating AI images using DALL-E and Flux. All that bundled up was apparently worth about seventeen thousand rupees for free. That's what people were banking on.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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