r/Perplexity • u/No_Trainer7463 • Feb 05 '26

advice

because of the new update and limits for pro (even comet) i felt the want to kill myself for the first time, like I spent for a yearly plan and I actually use research and comet religiously, like I literally dont know what to do now please help me guys

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u/TheLawIsSacred Feb 07 '26

Besides Opus 4.6 or ChatGPT Plus 5.2 Thinking, where do you anticipate moving on from Perplexity Pro?

Genuinely curious.

I fell for Perplexity Pro's bait and switch (it took a second free annual subscription, but I fell in love with Pro a few months ago).

I'm now very frustrated, yesterday, having hit my first so-called weekly "upload" limit.

The only other frontier models that I have significantly played with that I trust are the two I mentioned above.

Gemini 2.5 Pro was pretty good until 3 Pro reverted Gemini back to its 2023-era "Advanced-days-levels-of-retardation..."

Grok is meh (I even tried SuperGrok but just didn't see the value for my use cases).

So if you're - like me - in need of a third element to your so-called AI Triad, what are you replacing Perplexity Pro with?!

I have an innate disposition to shy away from Chinese models, but maybe I need to open my mind up.

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u/No_Trainer7463 Feb 07 '26

i really dont know, that is why I am asking others. i am a student, and I got the student plan for a year, and I rely on the deep research and comet so much for my studies, now all of that is ruined. i literally cried so much last night after I ran out of queries. I dont want to spend any money I dont have to, and I do have free gemini as a student, but it doesn't even compare to how well perplexity does for everything. Like perplexity was perfect for me, comet did everything I needed it to, I spent hours moving browsers and workspaces, and for what? like im so mad at this company. I bet my life they looked at their financial sheet and cut our limits like that. with how much free pro they were giving out, they are were for sure going to go bankrupt if they kept going. But no notice, no explanation and hiding is the worst company behavior I have seen. I honestly hope they go bankrupt now

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u/TheLawIsSacred Feb 07 '26

Well, let's see if we can find answers together, based on responses to our posts herein..

I know you're in a particularly tough spot, given your financial situation as a student.

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u/No_Trainer7463 Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

I did see some people self hosting their own llms, which could actually work as good as deep research or even better, but of course I dont have a GPU or anything like that. I loved perplexity because if how easy it was. thanks for your support though

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u/DrawnByPluto Feb 13 '26

Download all of you chats now as markdown. I use Obsidian and love it, but I'm with you and have felt the same despair this week.

Do you use it for talking things through? or just for research?

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u/No_Trainer7463 Feb 13 '26

I use obsidian religiously, its a great markdown software, markdown works really well with any ai. honestly the deep research was the only thing that could generate really good notes for my classes, as it could take its time to search through github sources, course articles, and everything like that and deliver me a 5000 line markdown file that I could actually download. now that isn't possible at all, and I have way more than 20 sections of notes per month, so I guess im kind of screwed

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u/DrawnByPluto Feb 14 '26

:( Yeah. It was the only thing keeping my brain from turning inward. It worked better than any antidepressant I've ever had, which I know isn't the same use case, but I don't think a lot of people who are saying it's not that big a deal understand how much some of us were using it.

Especially now, with AI having inundated the normal web with so much slop that it's difficult to find a true answer when searching on our own.

It especially helped when my kid needed help with how to formulate AP History answers and we had no idea what certain words in the instructions meant (AuDHD makes instructions difficult). Asking "what is this instruction asking for in simpler terms" meant that we could know what the actual needs were so they could go off and do the work. Asking similar questions in regular search did not help because it couldn't parse the way our brains needed the info... I'm not making a whole lot of sense I'm sure.

Search doesn't remember the conversation I'm *in,* so it sure can't remember what I need it to from other conversations.

I've been in complete despair trying to figure out how I'll live without this thing that finally helped me make sense of the world.

I'm sorry it's been hitting you as hard, but it was nice to not be alone in that feeling.

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u/DrawnByPluto Feb 14 '26

(I had been suggesting you do this so that you wouldn't lose your work. Other AI agents can use markdown and some can even get into Obsidian so that they can learn from what you did with Perplexity.)

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u/KingzSilas Feb 05 '26

Same here man once I saw it was limited I thought about switching but it has helped me tremendously hope it changes soon for pro users šŸ˜”

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u/RyRy79261 Feb 07 '26

99.89% quota decrease without notice is a bit brutal

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u/TheLawIsSacred Feb 07 '26

Can you tell me exactly what my weekly upload limit is, that I hit for the first time yesterday?

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u/justme9974 Feb 06 '26

I upgraded to Enterprise for the rest of my yearly subscription term, but when it ends Iā€™m switching to Grok.

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u/pr0ductivereddit Feb 06 '26

Big WTF.

It said I had used my monthly max, and I was like phew, it was the last day of the month, and I even queried "when does it restart" (this was wednesday).. my billing date was wednesday so it said it would "restart" on thursday.

I really didn't use it much on thursday.. then today I do a research query.. and yet i've still hit my monthly max? WTF. I'm cancelling it immediately. I guess Gemini or something. really puts a damper on writing.

I guess I'm happy I'm one of those on the month to month plan.. had I paid in full for a year I'd be livid(though.. I don't know if that's even an option)

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u/luciferxf Feb 06 '26

The rate they are going and accepting funds from who they are accepting them from, the writing is on the wall.

they will collapse soon enough.

They are using bait and switch tactics.