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The automatic charge authorization means fees can be collected without any additional approval step from the customer at the time of billing.
Customers grant Perplexity AI the right to charge fees automatically, without requiring further confirmation, using whatever payment information was submitted.
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"Customer hereby authorizes Perplexity to automatically charge Fees using the payment information provided to Perplexity.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity API Terms of Service
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The automatic charge authorization means fees can be collected without any additional approval step from the customer at the time of billing.
Customers grant Perplexity AI the right to charge fees automatically, without requiring further confirmation, using whatever payment information was submitted.
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