Samsung Galaxy device users are eating well at the moment. After giving free access to streaming services and photo editing software, the company has a new free subscription offer for millions of existing Galaxy phone and tablet owners.

This story was updated on June 23rd with new details on Samsung and Perplexity’s partnership.

The Korean company is giving away 12 months of chatbot Perplexity AI Pro, which is worth $200, to Galaxy phone and tablet owners in the U.S. To get the deal, head to the Galaxy Store, download the Perplexity AI app and create an account. That’s it, you should now have a full year of the Pro tier of Perplexity AI.

If you have used Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot—or any other chatbot—you will be familiar with Perplexity. It claims to focus on accuracy by always providing citations for its answers. The Pro version gives users more options for tailoring their output results from AI models, including GPT-4 Omni, Claude 3, and Google’s Gemini. Other Pro features allow text-to-image generation, file uploads, and an increased amount of daily searches, which uses more sources for more detailed answers.

This is one of Samsung's more generous software giveaways this year. The last year-long subscription Samsung gifted to Galaxy users was for Disney Plus via its now-defunct “Boost” program. Two years on, a similar, more 2025-inspired, freebie has been made exclusively to U.S. Galaxy phone owners.

None of the current lineup of bundled subscription services, that come with Galaxy S25 purchases, extend beyond one month—the only exception being six months of Gemini Advanced. It isn’t worth buying a Samsung phone for any of those software freebies (it is, however, for the free tablet and trade-in deals).

But the good thing about the Perplexity offer is that it doesn’t require the purchase of a new phone. Have a look around for an old Samsung phone and see if you can still claim the subscription. Let me know me know if that works.

So far this year, Samsung has bundled a free tablet and a free pair of Galaxy Buds with Galaxy S25 purchases, given away a Galaxy S25 with select TVs and massively raised trade-in prices to unprecedented levels.

The best offers and freebies have been bundled with the Galaxy S25 Edge, which could be related to a recent report that claimed the device may not be selling well. The fact that Samsung has launched some of its most aggressive trade-in pricing I have seen, for the Edge, hints that may be the case. It also shows what lengths the Korean company will go to to shift smartphones—so there may be more deals on the way for the Edge and other Galaxy phones. Don’t miss out, hit the follow button below for the latest tech news and deals stories.

Update June 23rd: U.S. customers should take advantage of this Perplexity offer because its availability on Samsung devices could be in question. Bloomberg reports that Apple is considering buying the AI startup. The discussions are at an early stage, with Apple executives and “top AI decision makers” weighing up an acquisition, although this may not lead to an offer.

Complicating this is Samsung’s own interest in the chatbot. The Korean company is reportedly close to announcing a partnership with Perplexity, with its own investment in the AI startup to cement its collaboration. This, according to Bloomberg, could result in Perplexity blending with Samsung’s in-house AI, Bixby, alongside becoming the default assistant on the Galaxy S26.

It’s not clear what this means for Google’s partnership with Samsung, from which Gemini took center stage as the de facto AI assistant in the Galaxy S25. But I understand why Samsung would take this path considering Perplexity’s focus on search result accuracy, rather than Google’s more freewheeling Gemini. The free Perplexity Pro offer is likely a result of a deepening relationship between the two companies and to gauge Galaxy phone user interest in the chatbot ahead of a more serious integration into future Samsung phones.