AI-powered answer engine — ask anything and get cited, real-time answers from across the web.
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that searches the web in real time and delivers concise, cited answers to any question. Unlike traditional search engines that return lists of links, Perplexity reads, synthesizes, and summarizes information from multiple sources with inline citations so you can verify every claim. Use Pro Search for complex research that requires multi-step reasoning.
Switch between AI models including GPT-4, Claude, and Perplexity's own Sonar model. Free tier available with unlimited quick searches; Pro plan unlocks more Pro Searches and file uploads.
Pricing model: Freemium
Common questions about Perplexity
Perplexity Computer can now work in your own Chrome browser, using sites you're already signed into. The extension is available to all Computer users in the Mac and Windows apps.
Install the extension, then connect the browser through Settings → Connectors on Mac or Settings → Permissions on Windows. Computer can read pages, fill forms, and work across your tabs.
Edge, Brave, Arc, and other Chromium browsers also work. Comet has this control built in.…
Perplexity’s updated voice mode lets you work across multiple Computer sessions in one conversation. You can start new tasks and create and manage Projects by voice.
It’s available in the Mac app and on the web for Pro and Max subscribers. Perplexity says it runs on OpenAI’s gpt-live-1.
HeyGen’s HyperFrames skill is now in Perplexity Computer’s skills marketplace. Use /hyperframes in a task and describe the video you want to make.
The skill turns that description into a finished MP4. Each scene is built as HTML, so you can request copy changes afterward.
The launch offer made tasks using /hyperframes free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user.
Perplexity Computer has added Impeccable, a design review skill by Paul Bakaus, to its skills marketplace.
Use /impeccable in a task to have it review an interface’s layout, typography, contrast and accessibility and fix the issues it finds.
Tasks using /impeccable are free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user.
Perplexity Computer’s skills marketplace now includes the Taste Skill. It sets an art direction before Computer builds a website, drawing layout and type choices from 247 sites featured on Awwwards and One Page Love.
Use /taste-skill to call it. Tasks using the skill were offered free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user.
Perplexity Computer added a PHP2Shell skill that checks your PHP sites and GitHub deployment configs for exposure, then prioritizes the fixes.
The promotion makes tasks using /php2shell-exposure-check free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user.
Perplexity Computer can now run both its AI model and agent locally on your Mac. With your permission, it can work with local files and supported apps including Notes, Messages, Mail and Numbers.
Perplexity says planning, reasoning and file processing stay on the device, with code and tools running in isolated sandboxes. You can choose Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro, and authorize cloud access when a task needs current information, browser use or connected apps.…
Perplexity Computer now supports interactive 3D previews and editable CAD exports. It can also make edits with FreeCAD and show a video of the changes.
Perplexity Computer for Mac now supports tabs and separate windows, so you can work in parallel across multiple screens.
The update is included in version 26.37.1 and is available to all Computer Mac users.
Perplexity shared a browser flight game built with Computer in Light mode.
Perplexity says the demonstrated run used 97 credits. That's the cost of this example, rather than a fixed price for creating a game.
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