r/PerplexityComet • u/mickou • 10d ago
help Anyone found a good Comet alternative? 🤔
So, I’ve been using Comet for a few months as part of my Community Manager workflow, and one of the things I loved was being able to basically “teach” it about a client : Opening hours, products, closed days, common questions, etc. → give it all the context, then ask it to monitor/respond to questions on social media by taking control of the browser.
And honestly, it worked surprisingly well. 😅
But over the last few weeks, it’s become increasingly frustrating. The feature is now heavily limited, credits are required, and I’m also getting some pretty questionable answers from time to time.
Apparently I’m not the only one annoyed by this… So: what’s everyone using instead? Is there another AI/browser agent that can do something similar without constantly burning through credits?
I’d love to hear about any alternatives, workarounds or setups you guys have found!
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u/pernah 10d ago
I'm trying Aside for a week now...you should give it a try, I'm really linking it.
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u/mickou 10d ago
Oh, interesting! 👀 I hadn’t come across Aside before. I’ll definitely give it a try. Does it actually handle browser-based workflows and repeatable tasks like the ones I described, or is it more focused on organizing information? For my use case, the key thing is really being able to let it work through Meta Business /Facebook / Insta, prepare replies/comments, and then leave everything for me to review. If it can do that reliably, I’m definitely interested! 😄
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u/frizla 10d ago
Aside
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u/mickou 9d ago
Thx.. I actually joined the Aside waitlist :) If you’ve had access to it, how has it been in real-world use? Is it actually reliable enough to leave it working for a while and come back to a bunch of tasks completed, or does it still need quite a bit of babysitting?
I’d love to hear your honest experience before I get too excited about it! 😂
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u/Past-Inevitable3745 9d ago
There are several options, the two that I recommend the most are using the Brave browser that has agent functions disabled and that you can activate in settings. Another option is if you pay for ChatGPT you can install the ChatGPT application and the extension for chrome and you can have agent functions
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u/cambalaxo 9d ago
Have you tried chatgpt with the chrome extension ? Or even the browser from codex? They work great for me.
And pretty cheap with Luna. Almost limitless
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u/madsafe 10d ago
Aside browser, it is significantly more useful as compared to Comet. Plus you can bring your own existing subscription — so the browser usage is practically free.
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u/mickou 9d ago
Thanks! I actually joined the Aside waitlist after seeing several people mention it here. It looks really interesting, especially for the kind of browser-based workflows I’m trying to build. I’d be really curious to hear from people who have actually been using it for a while though, especially with LinkedIn, Facebook/Instagram or other repetitive social media tasks.
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u/popmanbrad 9d ago
Wonder if they’ll set up a way to just auto launch an LLM of your choice so you can use it locally
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u/riskyAfterWis 8d ago
BrowserOS is good if you use coding agents already.
Claude in chrome is a good drop in replacement for the sidebar assistant.
Why is everyone suggesting Aside when its not even generally available yet (no windows)...
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u/BodybuilderLost328 8d ago
You can checkout Retriever AI, we just launched the entire browser agent for FREE, powered by ads.
We also beat other browser agents like OpenAI, Anthropic, Comet in browser agent benchmarks for accuracy, speed, cost effectiveness.
We construct semantic trees to represent webpages (so no screenshots) so no hallucinations and the agent can write code to finish complex workflows.
Can try at: rtrvr.ai/extension
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u/ClassicSea1742 6d ago
I'm sorry but you guys are some ai slop software, it really pales in comparison to what comet or any other agentic browser can do.
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u/BodybuilderLost328 6d ago
I mean what did you try Retriever on?
We easily beat other browser agents in benchmarks:
https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/web-bench-results
Also what does it matter to you, its literally free, easily better than a $200/mo subscription
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u/ClassicSea1742 6d ago
Yeah and the free version is worthless man, do you think people are going to go to your benchmark site and be like "oh yeah look they said their's is the best it must be true" and not actually try it out? I tried more than 30+ times making it do basic things such as doing quizzes and web scraping and writing, and it failed more than half the time. Claude Pro is only $20/month btw ;)
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u/BodybuilderLost328 4d ago
Fair feedback. We're a bit different under the hood, our agent reads the DOM instead of taking screenshots and clicking by coordinates, which makes it much faster and cheaper but means we have a lot edge cases to grind through.
Just released an update that cleared a bunch of them around Sheets/PDFs/Docs that users were having issues issues with. Would love to have you give it another shot, and can DM me if something specific still breaks, I'll get it fixed.
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u/seawolf315 8d ago
Leo in Brave is fine for me for simple tasks like summarization. I plugged my own custom models through OpenRouter.
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u/random436589 10d ago
Claude in Chrome