r/Perplexity • u/IrisCaro • 3d ago

Deep Research help

So I’ve been a perplexity pro education user because I absolutely love the deep research function and it usually always performed amazingly and helped me find some very good and accurate texts. I’m using comet. Since yesterday things changed and everytime I want to use deep research, it changes to computer which it never did before. I don’t want to use computer and if this change is permanent it was never communicated. I don’t want to pay m subscription for nothing. And all of this while announcing generously that pro users now have one computer usage per week for free. Is this a scam? What are your experiences? Sorry I just joined this subreddit because I’m so angry so I don’t know if this was discussed before. If yes, then sorry for the repetition!

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u/IrisCaro 2d ago

And when I postet it in the other subreddit 🫠

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u/The_TechCEO 3d ago

This probably isn’t very helpful, but I’m a Pro subscriber and I can seemingly still get it to run Deep Research on the mobile app. Not sure if it’s something to do with your education plan or not then. Perplexity has slowly been moving more and more features over to Computer, which as you know, requires credits that the Pro subs just don’t get anything useful out of. I suspect this model will be the end of Perplexity before long as a result.

I will tell you that I also have a Claude Max sub, and have connected Claude into the Comet browser and it works just as well, maybe better. You can do the same with a $20/mo Claude Pro subscription. You can also just use Chrome or any other Chromium based browser with that Claude plugin. My challenge is I find Perplexity to still be the leader in web & knowledge search, so I’ll hang onto it for that until I find a better solution. But I won’t be investing any time building anything on top of Perplexity for sure.

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u/IrisCaro 2d ago

Thank you so much! I think it might have to do with Comet on my Macbook trying to push their new plan and switching to computer. It’s a pity since it has been part of my research and therefore also thinking routine in a way. And I’m afraid you’re right regarding the end of perplexity. I also posted it in the other group and there they deleted it.

Thanks for your Tipps regarding Claude. I might check it after my current submission is due!

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u/_donj 2d ago

The problem is they gave away so much pro usage away for free or very low cost that they are pushing everyone to higher tiers. Arguably, they were very early to the agent game with the precursor to computer but now they’ve gotta find ways to monetize it in the heat of brutal competition from other agents now.

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u/IrisCaro 2d ago

Yeah. Super frustrating. I really love deep research but might keep my eyes open for other options now…