r/perplexity_ai

i had a year free of perplexity pro and i loved it for searches with the clause sonnet model. it expired last month and so are my chatgpt and gemini this month.

saw some posts about deteriorating pro experience and reduced limits. does it make sense to buy it for a couple of months if my primary use case is just searching for relevant content (which it did quite effectively with sonnet earlier)?

if not, what's a good alternative? i haven't had great experiences for searching with gemini- very bad organisation and fetching trite content, chatgpt just straight up hallucinates and claude will just end up hitting limits since i basically don't google anymore and routed my queries through perplexity

Last year it was possible to get a good price via PayPal or Magenta, what's the current situation?

"Only 3 more advanced AI model uses left this week"

I've barely used it, just a couple of simple questions and queries, pro account.

It's already insane they think that Sonnet is an 'advanced' model and they lock Opus or newer GPT models behind the Max account.

I've sent it looks like about 16 messages this week, most of that a simple back and forth chat asking it to clarify previous responses.

So they charging $1 per query? What? Does that make Perplexity suddenly the most expensive subscription out there when it comes to AI? I've bought an annual account and seems like they drastically reduced the limits.

Fuck this company. What's the alternative for search?

I pay $20/month for Perplexity Pro and use it for pro se briefs and cover letters for job applications. When I am focused on something, it does a good job, but when I return to the same bookmarked thread, it's forgotten everything, right back to square one. It's like that Christopher Nolan movie MEMENTO, where the guy had brain damage and instantly forgot everything. Reall frustrating. Gemini free AI and NotebookLM had plenty of faults, but I don't remember this problem. I really waste a lot of time repeating myself.

https://preview.redd.it/t5ndfqrdx6bh1.png?width=421&format=png&auto=webp&s=075b61a35155937e732695473951f02607b960b6

Wtf is going on. Are they for real ?

I mean beyond basics. If I want to find out something about things they changed/released/renamed after a certain point when they stopped giving a shit there is no freaking way.

One time I've been looking for a renamed and "redesigned" thing for like a hour at least. While I received a notification calling it one name. It was already called in the UI totally different and no one knew where it was.

Apparently to use some things you need to know what word to type when typing a prompt. Right? No?

Another time they charged credits and I don't know what for, then refunded partially. "Usage and credits" just showed credits deducted and no details. Now it shows "Failed to load data," even better.

At the same time usage always showed: Text usage 0.00 Image usage 0.00 Video usage 0.00 Audio usage 0.00

"Your past invoices" shows no invoices.

And what's up with the help center: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/helpcenter

It's totally broken, at least for me. It takes me to Enterprise help. Even there it doesn't work great.

It seems like they almost (?) stopped adding hints and help text to new feature pages/forms.

Models don't know about new features/changes too. You can't ask them either.

Total disregard for the customers.

I've been working on an app for weeks in Perplexity Computer. Suddenly on June 30, the sandbox on the thread in which I had built and gone through countless rounds of revisions was unreachable. To my great surprise, there was no zipped file of the app build data to that point. I asked the AI for tips to reference the old thread in a new thread, what error codes to use, what filenames to target, etc.. Did everything it suggested, and yet I'm still stuck rebuilding the app from the new thread chasing its tail, looking at the deployed app in its live state and trying to reinvent all of the build data from there. It's cost me thousands of credits. I've reached out to PerplexityAI support by email to try to get refunded, but no word yet. I'm very frustrated and afraid of losing all this good work at a time when I can't afford to dump more money into credits. Anyone have any experience similar to this? If so, how did it work out in your case?

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Seems like that browser use has been removed from Comet. Is that true? I paid an annual subscription for comet so I really hope its not the case.

It's available and giving me good results.