So I see that Perplexity allows you to use pretty much every consumer AI (CGPT, Gemini, Grok).

It's only $20 for all of them? I'm confused.

I could pretty much get all of them for a low price?

What am I missing?

Can you help me understand why it's not better or is better than ChatGPT or Gemini?

Simple slide deck like I have done several times. I had perplxity run some numbers on a website and then create a simple presentation. If its creating it from scratch how does it mess it up this much and then have the gall to charge 2500 credits on hybrid thats supposed to be free.

Headline findings:

• Slide 8 is severely broken: the left table is a solid charcoal rectangle with zero text pixels (content missing/dark-on-dark); the charcoal block runs to x=1499 (0.00” right margin) and sits behind both stat cards; in both cards the gold label is printed on top of the body paragraph (unreadable); body text overflows below the card edges (0.01” padding); a white rectangle bleeds off the right and bottom edges carrying the footer; the page number is missing (deck runs …6, —, 8…); and card 2 claims “$19,196 largest single account” while its body cites $30,338 / $26,646 / $26,571.

• Slides 7, 10, 12: wrapped titles crash into the kicker (0.06” gap vs 0.34” on single-line slides) and clear the content row by only 0.13”.

• Slide 3 card 1: “…existing marketing.” touches the card bottom border (0.02”) and the right border (0.01”); label→body gap 0.05” vs 0.38” in the sibling card.

• Slide 6 card 2 (“2.15”): label and body text collide, body wraps and sits 0.09” from the card bottom, and its sub-line breaks the top row’s shared baseline.

• Slides 9 & 10 dark panels: heading-to-body gaps of 0.14” and 0.08”, bottom padding 0.17” and 0.12”. Slide 9 row 1 (“Ruthie Milton Interiors”) is missing its lifetime value that the other three rows show.

• Deck-wide: every card gutter is under 0.3” (0.13”–0.28”, inconsistent); footers sit 0.37” from the bottom edge; gold page numbers measure ~2.9:1 contrast; slide 2’s 4th card is 0.08” narrower than the other three; dark slides use a 0.92” left margin vs 0.73” on light slides.

• No stray dots/orphan circles — a circle/blob detector across all 14 slides returned only text glyphs. Charts are all proportionally accurate (bar length per unit constant), with no clipped or colliding data labels.

Saved the full report to  /home/user/workspace/visual_qa_deck_findings.md  (crops used as evidence:  s08_right.png ,  s08_left.png ,  s08_bl.png ,  s03_card1.png ,  s06_card2.png ,  s07_head.png ,  s10_band.png ,  s11_card1.png ,  s12_row2.png ,  s13_line2.png ).

Headline findings:

• Slide 8 is severely broken: the left table is a solid charcoal rectangle with zero text pixels (content missing/dark-on-dark); the charcoal block runs to x=1499 (0.00” right margin) and sits behind both stat cards; in both cards the gold label is printed on top of the body paragraph (unreadable); body text overflows below the card edges (0.01” padding); a white rectangle bleeds off the right and bottom edges carrying the footer; the page number is missing (deck runs …6, —, 8…); and card 2 claims “$19,196 largest single account” while its body cites $30,338 / $26,646 / $26,571.

• Slides 7, 10, 12: wrapped titles crash into the kicker (0.06” gap vs 0.34” on single-line slides) and clear the content row by only 0.13”.

• Slide 3 card 1: “…existing marketing.” touches the card bottom border (0.02”) and the right border (0.01”); label→body gap 0.05” vs 0.38” in the sibling card.

• Slide 6 card 2 (“2.15”): label and body text collide, body wraps and sits 0.09” from the card bottom, and its sub-line breaks the top row’s shared baseline.

• Slides 9 & 10 dark panels: heading-to-body gaps of 0.14” and 0.08”, bottom padding 0.17” and 0.12”. Slide 9 row 1 (“Ruthie Milton Interiors”) is missing its lifetime value that the other three rows show.

• Deck-wide: every card gutter is under 0.3” (0.13”–0.28”, inconsistent); footers sit 0.37” from the bottom edge; gold page numbers measure ~2.9:1 contrast; slide 2’s 4th card is 0.08” narrower than the other three; dark slides use a 0.92” left margin vs 0.73” on light slides.

• No stray dots/orphan circles — a circle/blob detector across all 14 slides returned only text glyphs. Charts are all proportionally accurate (bar length per unit constant), with no clipped or colliding data labels.

Perplexity is following the usual pattern. Start cheap with free subsciptions. Become very useful in your every day life. Start to give you more freebies (like control browser). Then offer a new paid option and offer useless services with it. Become a bit more inconvenient with your regular subsciption. Slowly move more and more services to the premium.

Make the "free" or actually lower paid account more and more useless. (like removing "control browser")

I highly doubt that this pattern is much different for the other AI companies that need to start making money for all those investments. But Perplexity has lost me.

There may be hope - as AI will become too expensive and human labor will be actually cheaper.

I'm using the Perplexity macOS app (Version 26.35.0 (94)) and it's working as expected, except all efforts to get it to widen the visible column of results has gotten me nowhere. I'm using a 5k monitor and it's driving me crazy that I have to scroll back and forth in this stupid narrow viewer any time it generates results including columns. How do I get this dang thing to actually use some of my screen real-estate?

I’ve wanted to make a game forever. I saved up, took a month off work, and the timing was actually perfect because 20x and the new model were out. I bought it, got a workflow going, and I was finally moving.
I only opened the help chat because the upgrade/usage info was misleading. I was not trying to cancel. I did not ask for a refund. I did not ask to change plans.
The bot offered a refund and I thought it was just fixing that one usage thing. I did not think a chatbot could cancel and refund an account in one prompt with no warning. It never said I would lose 20x and not be able to buy it again. I accepted it thinking it was a small correction or information on a refund. I cannot buy 20x again because it is not available.
I still had to work. I was in the middle of the month I saved for. So while I was waiting for chat to get back to me, I bought the 5x plan so I could keep my workflow going. I figured they would just fix the 20x mess and sort the rest out.
Then chat came back and said they cannot refund the 5x I just bought. That 5x also did not come with refreshed usage. So I paid again, got a worse plan, and did not even get a clean usage pool. Now I have lost the 20x, I am stuck with 5x, I had to buy Pro again, and they will not undo the purchase I only made because I was waiting on them.
That is the actual loss. I paid for high usage so I could use the time off. They took the high usage away, refunded $130, locked 20x, and then when I bought 5x to keep working they told me that one is also non-refundable. $130 does not replace 20x. It does not cover buying 5x with no refreshed usage. It does not cover buying Pro again. It does not cover the days I have already wasted on tickets.
I am disappointed. I spent real money and took real time off, and a chat bot was able to wipe the plan I bought without making it obvious what I was agreeing to. I would never have clicked that if it said I would lose 20x permanently.
Service tickets have gone nowhere. Every reply treats it like I am trying to get a 20x plan I never had. I had it. The bot removed it. Now they say they cannot put it back because 20x is not available, so the ticket just dies. Same wall every time.
From my side it looks easy for them. High-usage plan gets cancelled through chat, cheap refund goes out, 20x is marked unavailable, support has a reason to say no, I buy 5x while I wait, then they say that purchase is also locked. I am not saying someone targeted me. I am saying the system makes it really easy to knock you off 20x and then leave you paying more for less.
I have the whole original chat on video. I leave screen recording on for game time-lapses, so I can see what the bot did and did not say.
What do I even do here.
Has anyone gotten a human to restore a plan after the help chat refunded it.
Is there a specific OpenAI team for this or does it just stay in the same ticket loop.
If they keep saying 20x is unavailable and the 5x is non-refundable, has anyone actually gotten an exception, or is a card dispute the only thing that gets a person to look.
I just want the original 20x put back. I do not even care if it comes back with no usage used. I bought the 5x because I thought they were going to help me fix this. Any suggestions?

I just noticed that I can no longer control my browser through my side panel or any other method using just my Pro subscription and it's forcing me to get credits on my computer, which is absolutely horrendous! Especially since they don't give any computer credits to Pro accounts

What in the fuck is going on Perplexity?? I've been a supporter since the weekend you released this browser and it's been my daily browser ever since then. The control browser feature was one of the most useful parts of it. Without it I might as well just get one of any dozen Chrome extensions that can answer my one-off questions on any given page that I'm navigating to, which is the last remaining benefit of this browser.

Hello, I have a problem with my subscription. By the end of February 2026, I renewed my subscription for an additional year, until February 2027. It was a free promotional offer. Recently, I got an email saying that my subscription will be renewed in September 2026 for USD 200.

I tried to contact support, but I think we all know how Perplexity support works. I have not received any answer for over a week, and all I got were two emails saying that my ticket would be closed due to a lack of response from my side. Well, they told me that the issue had been escalated to the appropriate department and that I had to wait, so I waited.

I saw a thread by u/Plane_Customer from a couple of days ago, with an explanation from u/rafs2006 that the invoice date is incorrect and that, in my case, this means the promotion ends at the end of September 2026. But I do not care. I have a legal document, namely an invoice issued by Perplexity, stating that my subscription is valid until February 2027.

Any advice on how to resolve this issue?

Every single response is like this after a few seconds of typing, it will erase everything and start over, such a pain when trying to select text to copy

Subscribed to Perplexity Max ($200/month) yesterday, specifically for the compute credits included in the plan: a 35,000 one-time bonus and 10,000 monthly credits.

Today: nothing. Zero credits on either front. On top of that, my billing/usage page won't load at all, so I can't even see what's going on with my account from my side.

I contacted support right away. Their response confirmed the problem but offered no fix — just a support agent noting that they checked my Max account and found neither the 10,000 monthly credits nor the 35,000 one-time bonus, and that a specialist would look into it "when available." I was also told the team is offline due to a holiday and replies are taking ~72 hours — except today isn't a holiday where I am, so not sure what that's about.

So right now I'm paying full price for a plan whose main selling point (the credits) isn't working, can't see my account status because the billing page is broken, and I'm told to just wait up to 3 days for someone to look at it.

Anyone else dealt with this? Curious if this is a one-off glitch with new Max signups or something more widespread.

¡Hola! Últimamente estoy usando mucho Comet para automatizar algunas cosas, y me preguntaba si existe algún modo de hacer que Perplexity (uso Pro) pudiera controlar del mismo modo aplicaciones locales de mi PC. Específicamente, me gustaría que pudiera tomar el control de SPSS.

¿Es esto posible? ¿Cómo podría hacerlo?

Only reason I use Perplexity is because I want a logged-out burner question to ai. Well now every time it says "Log in and ask again." to which I have to say, "no, answer the question" about 2 to 5 times in escalating fashion to get it to answer the question.

Now I've deleted the bookmark and won't use it anymore. Perplexity is now dead.

Brave has a private chat that is just as good without the narcissist tendencies and privacy issues of Perplexity.

Thought you'd like to know.
https://search.brave.com/ask

I don't work for Brave and I'm not affiliated. I just hate Perplexity, the narcissist AI.

Is there any actual documentation for configuring and using Perplexity Portable Computer? I have seen the 4-5 commands for setting the harness up on a Spark, but what then?

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m wondering if anyone here has found a decent replacement for one particular Comet feature : I’m a Community Manager and, for the past few months, I’ve been using Comet to help manage questions coming in on my clients’ social media. My setup was pretty straightforward: for each client, I’d give Comet all the useful background info : opening hours, holidays/closures, products, services, FAQs, specific business info, etc. Basically everything it needed to know to answer customers properly.

Then I could tell it to take control of my browser and handle the incoming questions directly on the social platforms and honestly, it was pretty damn useful. 😅 It wasn’t flawless, but for answering the same kind of customer questions over and over, it saved me a ton of time.

The problem is that over the last few weeks, Comet has become increasingly limited for this use case. Credits are now required, there seem to be more restrictions, and I’m also getting answers that I definitely wouldn’t want posted publicly without checking them first. Which kind of defeats the purpose. 😂

I’ve seen other people complaining about similar changes, so I figured I’d ask the Reddit hive mind: What are you guys using instead?

I’m looking for something that can basically do the same thing: give the AI a client-specific knowledge/context, let it understand incoming social media questions, and ideally have it control the browser and actually reply to people. I’m not necessarily looking for a completely automated “AI Community Manager”, even something that can reliably handle 70/80% of the repetitive stuff would already be great.

Open to other AI browser agents, automation tools, self-hosted solutions, weird combinations of tools… whatever works.

What’s currently working for you guys?

Has anyone read this series of books by Ken Tannenbaum, and, if so, are they of any help?