If Perplexity's service causes your business harm, the maximum amount you can recover from Perplexity is limited to what you paid them in the previous 12 months, and you cannot recover lost profits or other indirect losses.
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This provision caps the financial recovery available to enterprise customers regardless of the severity of a service failure or data incident. Combined with the AI output accuracy disclaimer, this means enterprise customers bear most of the financial risk from service failures or inaccurate AI outputs.
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If a data breach, service failure, or inaccurate AI output causes significant harm to an enterprise customer's business, the agreement limits Perplexity's financial liability to 12 months of subscription fees paid, and excludes recovery for lost profits or indirect damages entirely. For large enterprise deployments, this cap may be substantially lower than the actual potential harm.
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"IN NO EVENT SHALL PERPLEXITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. PERPLEXITY'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS PAID BY CUSTOMER TO PERPLEXITY IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Enterprise Terms
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Limitation of liability clauses are generally enforceable under US contract law but may be subject to limitation under consumer protection statutes, gross negligence carve-outs, or mandatory law in certain jurisdictions. EU contract law and GDPR both impose constraints on the ability to contractually limit liability for personal data breaches, and enterprise customers should assess whether this clause is enforceable in full in EU jurisdictions. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The combination of a 12-month fee cap with the exclusion of consequential damages creates a significant risk gap for enterprise customers, particularly those with large deployments where a service failure or data incident could cause harm far exceeding the subscription fee. This structure is common in SaaS agreements but the risk magnitude increases with the scale and criticality of the deployment. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU enterprise customers should assess whether GDPR Article 82 (which establishes data subject rights to compensation for data protection breaches) can be limited by this clause, and whether processor liability obligations override contractual caps. UK customers should assess similar considerations under UK GDPR. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Procurement teams should seek to negotiate higher liability caps for data incidents, carve-outs for gross negligence and willful misconduct, and mutual liability structures. The current cap-to-risk ratio may be commercially unfavorable for enterprise customers with large or sensitive deployments. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Enterprise risk management teams should quantify potential losses from service failures or AI output errors relative to the contractual liability cap and assess whether cyber insurance fills the gap. Legal teams should document the liability gap in their vendor risk assessments.
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This provision caps the financial recovery available to enterprise customers regardless of the severity of a service failure or data incident. Combined with the AI output accuracy disclaimer, this means enterprise customers bear most of the financial risk from service failures or inaccurate AI outputs.
If a data breach, service failure, or inaccurate AI output causes significant harm to an enterprise customer's business, the agreement limits Perplexity's financial liability to 12 months of subscription fees paid, and excludes recovery for lost profits or indirect damages entirely. For large enterprise deployments, this cap may be substantially lower than the actual potential harm.
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