Context : The distance to the Pleiades open cluster has been extensively debated in the literature over several decades .
Although different methods point to a discrepancy in the trigonometric parallaxes produced by the Hipparcos mission , the number of individual stars with known distances is still small compared to the number of cluster members to help solve this problem .

Aims : We provide a new distance estimate for the Pleiades based on the moving cluster method , which will be useful to further discuss the so-called Pleiades distance controversy and compare it with the very precise parallaxes from the Gaia space mission .

Methods : We apply a refurbished implementation of the convergent point search method to an updated census of Pleiades stars to calculate the convergent point position of the cluster from stellar proper motions .
Then , we derive individual parallaxes for 64 cluster members using radial velocities compiled from the literature , and approximate parallaxes for another 1146 stars based on the spatial velocity of the cluster .
This represents the largest sample of Pleiades stars with individual distances to date .

Results : The parallaxes derived in this work are in good agreement with previous results obtained in different studies ( excluding Hipparcos ) for individual stars in the cluster .
We report a mean parallax of 7.44 \pm 0.08 mas and distance of 134.4 ^ { +2.9 } _ { -2.8 } pc that is consistent with the weighted mean of 135.0 \pm 0.6 pc obtained from the non- Hipparcos results in the literature .

Conclusions : Our result for the distance to the Pleiades open cluster is not consistent with the Hipparcos catalog , but favors the recent and more precise distance determination of 136.2 \pm 1.2 pc obtained from Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations .
It is also in good agreement with the mean distance of 133 \pm 5 pc obtained from the first trigonometric parallaxes delivered by the Gaia satellite for the brightest cluster members in common with our sample .