The Rundown

In this guide, you will learn how to use Perplexity Computer to plan a full trip itinerary with flights, a day-by-day schedule, and sources in one run. This is the fastest way to turn travel tab chaos into a usable plan you can actually book from.

Who This Is Useful For

• Anyone planning personal travel who is tired of bouncing between flights, hotels, maps, and random blog posts
• Operators, assistants, and founders who need a fast first draft for a work trip without doing two hours of manual research
• Perplexity Pro users who want to see whether Computer is actually worth spending credits on

What You Will Build

A travel-agent-style itinerary PDF with flight options, hotel options, any/all transfer between cities and links to all the sources.

What You Need to Get Started

• A Perplexity Pro account with access to Perplexity Computer

Note: If you have Perplexity Pro, check your credits before you start. Perplexity gave Pro users 4,000 bonus credits to test Computer, and they expire April 13th, 2026. It should work if you sign up for Pro for the first time too.

Step 1

Open Perplexity in the app or in your browser and look for the Computer toggle.

Step 2

The key is to be clear up front on the parameters, like you are briefing a travel agent instead of chatting with a generic chatbot.

Use a prompt like this:

Plan a trip itinerary for [DESTINATION] for [DATES / LENGTH].

Constraints:

• Departing from: [AIRPORT]
• Budget: [budget or range]
• Style: [relaxed / packed / foodie / outdoors / etc.]
• Must-haves: [2-4 must-haves]

Output:

1. Best flight options with pricing
2. A day-by-day itinerary in a table
3. 2-3 hotel or stay options with why they fit
4. Sources/links at the bottom

Treat this like you are a travel agent building me a real plan.

Pro tip: Add constraints like direct flights preferred, I prefer flying United, or keep hotel changes to a minimum. The more you treat this like a real travel brief, the better the itinerary gets.

Step 3

Let Perplexity Computer run. In our tests for this guide, it took about 15-20 minutes to finish the itinerary. It used about ~650 credits to plan a 10-day international trip.

If you want to reduce the cost on future runs, click the + button, open Select Orchestrator, and pick a cheaper option if one is available. In the recording, Sonnet was called out as a lower-cost option than Opus for first passes.

Step 4

While you wait, you can try the same prompt in regular Perplexity search or any other LLM so you can see the performance difference.

We noticed the sub-agents really made a difference in creating a good itinerary.

Step 5

When it’s done, make sure you download the PDF. Sometimes Perplexity glitches and your “artifacts” don’t load right away when you try to access them.

Pro tip: Ask Perplexity to make you a one-pager with the “at a glance” version of the itinerary.

Going Further

Perplexity computer can deploy sub-agents to code. It’s good at creating helpful visualizations. Try asking it to create an interactive calendar website that you can use to help you plan and tweak your trip.