Pick Perplexity if
researchers, analysts, and anyone who wants a sourced first pass before opening ten tabs.
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Our take
Pick Perplexity if researchers, analysts, and anyone who wants a sourced first pass before opening ten tabs. Pick Perplexity Comet if people who already use Perplexity Search and want the same assistant inside the browser. Skip Perplexity if teams that cannot send queries to Perplexity, or users who need a repo-aware IDE (Cursor) or a local runtime (Ollama). Skip Perplexity Comet if teams that cannot leave Chrome,
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Free plan
Perplexity $0 · standard Search on the public composer
Perplexity Comet $0 · free to download worldwide (Oct 2, 2025 launch post)
Lowest paid
Perplexity Pro $17/mo yearly
Perplexity Comet Comet Plus $5/mo
Next step up
Perplexity Max from $167/mo yearly
Perplexity Comet Perplexity Pro $17/mo yearly
Coding agent
Perplexity API platform
Perplexity Comet
Runs where
Perplexity Hosted
Perplexity Comet
Watch out
Perplexity Citations are not a guarantee
Perplexity Comet Comet Plus is news access, not more assistant IQ
Last checked
Perplexity 2026-10-19 · perplexity.ai/pro
Perplexity Comet 2026-10-22 · perplexity.ai/pro
Which one, then?
Pick Perplexity Comet if
people who already use Perplexity Search and want the same assistant inside the browser.
Read the Perplexity Comet page