Guides Perplexity published mar 30, 2026
This guide shows you how to use Perplexity Computer to plan a full trip itinerary with flights, a day-by-day schedule, hotel options, transfers, and sources in one run. In testing, the itinerary took about 15–20 minutes to finish.
You will create a travel-agent-style itinerary PDF that you can use as a booking-ready first draft.
Treat the prompt like a real travel brief: add constraints such as preferred airlines, direct flights, or minimizing hotel changes.
Open Perplexity in the app or in your browser and look for the Computer toggle.
Be clear up front with your trip parameters, like you are briefing a travel agent instead of chatting with a generic chatbot.
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.
Let Perplexity Computer run. In the tests for this guide, it took about 15–20 minutes to finish the itinerary and 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.
While you wait, you can try the same prompt in regular Perplexity search or any other LLM so you can compare the performance difference.
In testing, the sub-agents made a noticeable difference in creating a good itinerary.
When it’s done, download the PDF. Sometimes Perplexity glitches and the “artifacts” do not 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.
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