Section 8.4 - Register entry
DOC-REF: FRC-MKT-FR2604643715
Perplexity Enterprise and API Platform
Perplexity AI lists Perplexity Enterprise and API Platform on the FedRAMP Marketplace with the status FedRAMP Certified, at Low impact, on the Program path under the 20x process. Package FR2604643715, read from the marketplace feed as of September 3, 2026.
Section A. Register entry
What the marketplace records
- FedRAMP package ID
- FR2604643715
- Cloud service provider
- Perplexity AI
- Certification status
- FedRAMP Certified
- Impact level
- Low
- Certification class
- Class B (Low)
- Authorization path
- Program
- Certification type
- 20x
- Marketplace phase
- Ongoing Certification
- Deployment model
- Public Cloud
- Register snapshot
- September 3, 2026
- Service model
- SaaS
- Independent assessor
- Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
- Certification date
- February 1, 2026
- Status date
- February 1, 2026
- Annual assessment
- February 1, 2011
- Agency authorizations
- 2
- Recorded reuses
- 1
- Business categories
- Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Collaboration, Communication, Content Management System (CMS), Development Tools, Education & Training, Finance, Legal & Policy, Research
- SAM.gov UEI
- P9N9FFAUBLQ4
- Milestones on record
- 2
The marketplace carries Perplexity Enterprise and API Platform under package FR2604643715 with 20 recorded fields. Its certification date is February 1, 2026. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program is named as the independent assessor, with an annual assessment date of February 1, 2011. 2 agencies are listed as having authorized it, among them Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the feed records 1 reuses of the package. It is delivered as SaaS on a public cloud, filed under 10 business categories including Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Collaboration and 7 more. Its SAM.gov unique entity identifier is P9N9FFAUBLQ4.
Section B. Milestones
2 entries in the marketplace event log
Most recent first, as recorded by FedRAMP.
| Date | Category | Recorded |
|---|---|---|
| February 1, 2026 | Status Change | Status changed from Initial Program Review to FedRAMP Certified |
| November 17, 2025 | Status Change | Status set to FedRAMP In Process |
Section C. Cost context
What reaching Low costs
Our own published ranges for a provider going through this level. Nothing here is a figure this provider has disclosed.
Cost context
Budget for a Low authorization
Our published planning range for a provider pursuing Low. It is not a figure any listed provider has disclosed.
Read the FedRAMP Low cost guide / continuous monitoring cost
Path
The marketplace records 80 offerings on the Program path, 76 of them 20x. Our 20x page covers what that model is estimated to cost. FedRAMP 20x cost analysis
20x
This package is on the 20x track. Our 20x page puts an early estimate of $100,000 to $300,000 on a Low or Moderate authorization under 20x against $500,000 to $2,000,000+ on the traditional path. Those are estimates from early pilot data, not observed invoices. 20x cost analysis
Section E. Agencies on the record
2 agencies listed against this package
As published on the marketplace. An agency named here has issued its own authorization to operate; FedRAMP does not issue ATOs itself.
- Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
- U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Section G. Nearest entries on the register
Comparable offerings
Scored on impact level, path, status, shared business categories and how close the two entries sit in the register's own timeline.
- Gemini for Government
Google
FedRAMP Certified, Low impact, Program path, 20x, certified January 21, 2026.
- Configurable Case Management Application Platform (CMAP)
Syneren Technologies Corporation
FedRAMP Certified, Low impact, Program path, 20x, certified September 30, 2025.
- Riskuity
Longevity Consulting
FedRAMP Certified, Low impact, Program path, 20x, certified February 6, 2026.
- Vyond for Government
Vyond
FedRAMP Certified, Low impact, Program path, 20x, certified December 5, 2025.
- ChatGPT Enterprise and API Platform
OpenAI
FedRAMP Certified, Moderate impact, Program path, 20x, certified January 9, 2026.
Section H. Description
As published on the marketplace
The provider's own description of the service, reproduced from the FedRAMP feed without edits.
Perplexity's Enterprise platform provides agency users with access to leading frontier AI models (including OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity Sonar, and more). The platform supports research and analysis across internal agency data and public sources through an intuitive conversational interface. Built on Perplexity's exabyte-scale proprietary knowledge index, responses are grounded in verifiable sources, providing trustworthy, transparent, and reliable information to users. Through Perplexity's Search API, developers may also access Perplexity's exabyte-scale knowledge index to provide web-grounded answers in real time. The index tracks over 300bn unique URLs and processes hundreds of millions of pages per day, providing agencies a durable foundation for real time web retrieval. Perplexity's features include robust security and compliance measures such as SAML SSO, customizable access controls and data retention, comprehensive administrative management, audit logs, and dedicated priority support. Perplexity Enterprise minimizes the risks inherent in single-model solutions, with Perplexity's model-agnostic architecture providing greater uptime and empowering IT administrators to enable and disable specific models to enforce policy compliance.
Next step
What the same authorization would cost you
The worksheet turns an impact level, an existing security posture and an organization size into a line-by-line budget, with the 3PAO fee split out.
Provenance and independence
Source: the FedRAMP Marketplace product feed, produced by the General Services Administration. The feed's own last-change stamp is September 3, 2026; this copy was taken on September 5, 2026.
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