“Habe heute gesehen das es bei Perplexity für Studenten 50% auf das Pro Abo gibt. Also anstatt 17€ nur noch 9€ im Monat (mir ist bewusst das dies nicht exakt 50% sind).”
“There isn't a mature tool for that yet that's worth paying for, so I'd start by hand: take the ten questions your buyers actually ask, run each through ChatGPT and Perplexity a dozen times, and note whether you're named and who's named instead of you.”
“Pick 20-30 questions your actual customers would ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. and run the same prompts consistently. Track which brands get mentioned, which sources get cited, and how your company is described.”
“I have a Perplexity Pro account and recently, the Deep Research mode keeps appearing as being locked. My subscription is active. Anyone else have this problem?”
“I like this direction for perplexity - you have local inference which can save a lot of money and cloud for really hard work and planning. Plus the solid research capability of perplexity. But man it’s rough right now.”
“The loss of extra credits and the top models does reduce value. And Computer seems to be the best research method but it’s so expensive. I’m going to stay with Pro for now — I like the hybrid concept rolled out for Macs this week.”
“Then they were surprised when they found out giving stuff away is expensive.Then they decided to attempt to recover by forcing folks to use Computer which became crazy expensive and is also the DEFAULT, so people with auto replenish enabIed got a very unpleasant billing surprise. Bottom line they wanted us to pay for their arrogance and ignorance.”
“You can search the memories perplexity stores about you so check for ”mental health” and any other search terms you can think of and delete those memories.”
“perplexity can be really bitchy. every single time I say I am even remotely--even a little--unhappy with anything at all, or describe being stuck on a tough problem (like research), it tells me to call the suicide hotline.”
“I used Perplexity's comet browser for about a year. Initially it was better than Chrome. But eventually, it was just as good as Google's search for quick queries, worse than Claude for long queries and quite buggy.”
“As Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and other answer engines increasingly provide the answer directly, referral traffic is falling - sometimes dramatically.”
“Perplexity offers nothing for free that other LLMs don’t offer more of. The Pro plan got ridiculously limited and it too isn’t as good as other paid plans.”
“Same experience here. I think I started using Perplexity for researching stuff before ChatGPT had search and particularly before I had access to Pro mode.”
“Perp is my jam. Its the only non-local AI I use, because using enterprise level IBM Granite locally is usually all I need, unless it is coding then I am using Deep Seek locally. I use perplexity like an emergant Wiki.”
“But instead of getting better (or at worst staying at the same level), it seems like it gets worse and worse instead.For a few months now I have it that it randomly switches to another language for like 1–2 words (most often Japanese) mid sentence.”
“aggregators buy breadth by capping the frontier tiers and falling back to something cheaper when you hit it. thats structural rather than perplexity being bad, anyone reselling someone elses inference pays for it somewhere and limits are where it lands.”
“I use my $20 Perplexity heavily as my main search and quick Q&A, but there is nothing from them yet that would entice me to bump to $200 plan. I get more than enough usage out of Claude Max 5 for agentic use cases.”
“Why are there two anti-Perplexity articles from independent research firms with identical websites on the front-page of HN right now, submitted by the same person? Am I going crazy?(see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375, left a comment there also)”
“From the references in their PDF, a few links are returning 404s, while others don’t even seem relevant to the so-called “research.” It is pure AI slop.”
“Trump Media and Technology Group announced that it partnered with Perplexity to test and integrate an AI search feature, referred to as Truth Social AI or Truth Search AI, directly into the Truth Social platform.”
“For what I use AI for, perplexity is the best option by far, and I have no desire to use Chat or Claude etc. But I’m not sure that the deep research option is worth $200/year to me.”
“have had multiple occasions where my own repos aren't queries, but others. in this particular case its a public one (thank god) but i had an publicly inaccessible (Russian) one a few days ago. I'm not reporting this to perplexity bc they don't care.”
“Since Fable, I feel the models themselves cross that threshold and there is diminishing to zero marginal utility of Perplexity's own algorithms on top. I say this since I compare results from Claude, Chatgpt pro these days and the results perplexity shows is eerily similar in wording.”
“no useful models, no infrastructure, only a totally broken search engine on top of third party models that have FAR better search capacity on their own.”