Introduction
What Perspective AI is, how the platform and the $POV token fit together, and where to read more.
Perspective AI puts the top AI models and community-built agents in one place. You can switch between them, compare them side by side, combine them in a single conversation, and own what you build on top. No infrastructure, no command line, no crypto knowledge required.
That friendly surface sits on top of something larger: a private, user-owned AI network designed so that usage is the engine and the $POV token is the coordinator. Why that matters — and why it can't come from the incumbents — is the subject of the Vision. These docs cover how it works underneath: what you pay for, what the network rewards, and how the token connects the two.
How the platform and the token fit together
Everything on the platform is credit-gated — inference, agents, previews — with credits priced in stable, dollar-legible terms. Margin on all of it buys $POV on the open market, which pays the people running the network first and burns whatever is left over. Emissions are only ever the shortfall between what providers require and what revenue already covers, so every dollar of revenue displaces a dollar of subsidy.
The token is not the product. Network usage is the product. The token captures value from that usage and coordinates the people who supply it.
It all points at a single line crossing: the moment revenue-funded buyback covers what providers require, the subsidy is over and the network sustains itself. That crossing is coverage, the primary KPI of the tokenomics, and every other mechanism exists to reach it.
Where to start
- Vision — why Perspective AI exists, and the three commitments that define it.
- Tokenomics — $POV supply, the two-state $POV / vePOV model, the residual emission construction, where revenue goes, verification, and governance.
- Credits — how everyday usage is metered, priced, and settled in dollar-legible units.
- Models — the catalog across every major lab, and how models are priced and routed.
- Agents — the preview-clone-run economy and how builders earn.
- Privacy — private mode, and what does and doesn't leave your browser.
Elsewhere
- Launch the app — chat, agents, models, billing
- perspectiveai.xyz — product overview, pricing and news
- @Perspective_AI_ — announcements
- Telegram — community
These docs describe a system that is still being built. Where a parameter is not yet fixed, it is described as a mechanism rather than given a number. Nothing here is investment advice or an offer of any kind.