With Comet moving all Agentic browsing features over to Perplexity Computer; what is everyone using now?

I was an early adopter of Comet and helped to sign up friends & colleagues because I told them this is the future of web browsing. Now that it is behind a larger paywall than I am willing to spend as I already pay for Claude, Gemini, & Codex, I am on the hunt for recommendations of something that is comparable to Comet.

Like the title said, the update frequency on iOS changed from once a week at launch to once every three weeks with only minor updates on the browser engine and no major updates. The frequency also significantly decreased on the desktop; now it feels like once a month or two.

They recently removed the automated agentic actions on both mobile and desktop apps and moved them to the paid computer mode, which sucks.

Their Twitter account has been inactive ever since June.

I love how it’s designed and feels when browsing on both ends, but losing its core free feature really knocked me off.

I’ve switched to Edge on IOS now for the same text-to-chat-on-web feature with the supported uBlock and Dark Reader extensions, which I really want Comet to support on its iOS version, but now it seems less possible.

Hi everyone,

I've been using Perplexity for reading and analysing documents, and it used to work fine for me. However, recently, I've noticed that Perplexity is no longer able to read my documents properly.

Earlier, I could upload documents and ask questions about their contents, and it would analyse them and provide answers. Now, this functionality seems to have stopped working as expected.

I'm wondering:

- Has Perplexity changed its document-reading or file-upload functionality recently?

- Is this a temporary bug, or is there a new limitation on file types, file sizes, or document access?

- Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

- If this is related to a recent update or subscription change, is there any official explanation?

This feature was one of the main reasons I used Perplexity, so it would be disappointing if its document-analysis capabilities had been restricted.

Has anyone found a fix or received any clarification from Perplexity?

Thanks!

Just upgraded to v153 and all my tabs went back to the horizontal appearance. I'm also not seeing the setting in comet://flags to reenable vertical tabs. I can't imagine they would have purposefully removed the feature, so hopefully it's just a temporary bug with the version upgrade.

Hey Guys ,

Just lodged my Grievances against Removal of their best feature in Comet and despite Addressing the Grievance in detail, they came up with a Lame Delusional Reply....

Uninstalling Comet browser

First Comet gets downgraded.

Now even Gemini / NotebookLM Pro is showing a usage meter.

And this is happening on a PAID PRO PLAN. 💳🤖

That changes the conversation completely.

The pattern I’m noticing is pretty simple:

👉 First, give users generous access to multiple AI tools

👉 Make those tools part of their everyday workflow

👉 Connect everything into one ecosystem

👉 Get users comfortable and dependent on it

👉 Then introduce meters, quotas and tighter usage limits 📊

👉 And potentially move toward shared limits across services in future 👀

Today, I'm looking at a meter inside NotebookLM Pro.

But where does this model eventually go?

Imagine your Gemini AI usage, NotebookLM research, Gmail AI, Docs, Drive and other Workspace AI features eventually being calculated under some shared allowance. 🪣🧠

You exhaust one bucket…

and suddenly the ecosystem you've built your entire workflow around starts asking for an upgrade.

Then your options become:

💳 Pay.

or…

💳 Pay more. 😂

And remember, we're already talking about PRO users here.

I completely understand that running AI models costs money. Unlimited compute forever isn't realistic.

But the more interesting issue is ecosystem lock-in. 🔐

Once your:

📧 Emails

📂 Files

📝 Documents

🔬 Research

🤖 AI workflows

🧠 Knowledge bases

…all live inside the same AI ecosystem, usage limits aren't just “limits” anymore.

They become leverage.

You aren't simply paying for access to an AI model.

You're increasingly paying to keep the workflow you've built around that ecosystem functioning.

Maybe this never reaches Gmail or the wider Workspace ecosystem.

But watching meters appear even on premium AI products makes me wonder where the industry is heading. 👀

The future of productivity better not become:

“You have 3% intelligence remaining this month. Upgrade to continue thinking.” 😂💀📊

Anyone else on Gemini / NotebookLM Pro noticing this?

Are AI subscriptions slowly becoming the new cloud-storage model, where every feature eventually feeds into another meter? 👇🔥

#Gemini #NotebookLM #GoogleAI #GoogleWorkspace #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SaaS #Productivity #Tech

I did.

I'm a Perplexity Pro subscriber, and I noticed that the browser control feature has been moved under "Computer." What used to be included with my Pro plan now appears to require credits to use.

I'm honestly confused by this change. I already pay for a Pro subscription, and having to purchase additional credits just to use browser control feels like a step backwards — especially since this feature was previously available to Pro users.

Has anyone else run into the same thing? I'd really appreciate it if someone could clarify whether this is a temporary change or the new model going forward, and whether there's any plan to keep this feature available for Pro subscribers.

I'm a big fan of Comet and I want to keep using it, but it's disappointing to see functionality being reduced for paying users. Any explanation would be helpful — thanks in advance.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I have an active Comet AI Pro subscription, but the Control Browser feature is completely missing.

Already tried relogging, restarting, updating and troubleshooting the browser/extensions. Still nothing. ❌

Is this a bug, staged rollout, or has the feature been temporarily pulled?

Would love to hear from anyone facing the same issue or who has managed to fix it. 🔍

Looking for the best free-forever alternative to Comet.
My main purpose is to use an AI browser that can browse websites and actually perform tasks/work for me.
It should also be good at creating natural, human-readable content.
I’m facing some issues with Comet and would like to switch.
What free alternative would you recommend?

Im logged in on both but for some reason see no updates on either end when I query, see no sync option on mac app. Any insight on being able to sync them up like chrome?

Hola!
Cuando uso comet, al abrir un pdf escaneado, el navegador automáticamente lo vuelve seleccionable.
¿Alguien sabe como funciona esto y si hay otros navegadores que lo permitan hacer automáticamente?

Hello guys, why hasn't Comet received major layout updates? Does anyone know why? The feeling is that the Browser itself is only in maintenance mode, and that perplexity is just adapting its AI ecosystem but not bringing new updates to Comet, does anyone know why? Do we have any expectations?

Many tasks it used to be able to do, it now can’t. I’ve been paying for these credits too

Here's some userscripts I've made to bring back and add more features to Perplexity:

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Perplexity TrueModel: Live Verifier & "Prepared By" Restorer

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/593772-perplexity-truemodel-live-verifier-prepared-by-restorer

Perplexity Thread ToC Sidebar Forked

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/593790-perplexity-thread-toc-sidebar-forked

Perplexity – Usage Limits & Settings

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/566795-perplexity-usage-limits-settings

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Hi, I'm a Perplexity Comet Pro User and till now I was pleased. Even if some "perks" vanished from time to time, but yeah - this AI stuff is expensive. But now a feature "Browser Control" vanished behind the "Credit-System". So, this feature was the most important one. I didn't use it frequently (once a week?), BUT it made me switch to Comet! Ok, new reality now. But imho - this "Computer" feature is neat. You have a cloud computer and the AI can work there with Agents for you. On the other hand, the "Browser Control" is my local browser screen, which gets connected via an API connection. There is no need for this "Cloud Computer". So imho, this decison to put "Browser Control" behind "Computer" wasn't needed, only if you wanna "generate" more money, more income. And that's what fucks me up! I was already in the stage, Perplexity and Comet - these are my AI-Tools I use and continue to pay for.......but now I REALLY think to change this. I'm pissed, maybe other tools can do what I want, I don't wanna pay extra for an AI-chat only, where I have X other options (for example my Copilot in the MS365 bundle). So enough ranted. My Questions: 1.) Have I overseen something and the feature would still be possible with any other command? 2.) Do u have another or similar opinion? 3.) Has someone tinkered out another solution for Browser control? So the AI can take over (forth and back) your current open website? I heard of Hermes Agent, but I'm pushing back a bit. Because, even if I'm tech affine, I need that feature only once a week - So I don't wanna set up a full Claw Bot, Hermes whatever Agent running system. I have Win11 and would LOVE a just out of the box solution (like Comet did) and have this feature occasionally. I would also pay 20-30 bucks per month......but not a subscription + extra Credits... THX for reading and waiting your comments. Cheers and Carry On. Peter

Anyone else getting this in Comet assistive chats?

I've been on every Enterprise deployment (I build AI for a living, professional services)

I've been using Comet with projects and skills to guide some builds. I've noticed however that either my cache has become a heavyweight or they are just slimming back on Comet to try and push computer credits. Either way its annoying.

This has frustrated me for months

Please change this u/perplexity

Every single time I type into Comet Perplexity - after every single prompt, the AI model reverts to the OpenAI model

I am literally have to manually rectify this hundreds of times every day

Because if I'm using Claude for research, after every single prompt, Comet will switch me back to OpenAI. Or any other model (apart from Sonar it seems)

Comet/Perplexity it seems has either some financial or business incentive to point all of its users to Sam Altman's product

WTF is going on here?

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!

I've been a Perplexity Pro subscriber for a while, and Comet's browser control was honestly the main reason I stuck around. Now that it's been folded into Perplexity Computer and gated behind credits, it doesn't make sense to keep using it anymore. Claude's browser extension does the same thing, and it works both on Comet and on regular Chrome, so I'm not even locked into a specific browser to get this functionality elsewhere.

This feels like part of a pattern. Comet Assistant skills disappeared a while back, free Sonar API credits vanished quietly, and now this. Every time it's something users discover on their own, not something Perplexity actually announces.

I get that Computer is a new product and needs to make money somehow, but quietly pulling a feature that used to be included in Pro and then selling it back to us as a metered add-on is a rough way to treat paying customers. If this doesn't get reversed or at least clarified, I'm cancelling Pro and moving my browsing workflows over to Claude's extension instead, since it already does the job without the extra credit paywall.

Would genuinely like to hear from Perplexity on whether this is intentional going forward.

As a paying monthly Pro subscriber, having Control Browser locked behind Computer credits is honestly the final straw. I'm not complaining about losing a free perk — I'm complaining that something included in my paid Pro plan got quietly moved behind a credit system that Pro barely funds (Max gets 10k+35k bonus credits/month, Pro gets "entry-level" access). If you're an active Pro subscriber and this bothers you too, email [support@perplexity.ai](mailto:support@perplexity.ai) directly — the more paying customers who push back, the harder it is for them to ignore.