Perplexity

Perplexity

Updated Jun 5, 2026
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Perplexity is the best research assistant LLM on the market, like Google but with better citations.

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What is Perplexity?

What is Perplexity?

Perplexity is an AI-first search engine that replaces Google with direct answers pulled from the web.

It's one of our favorite AI tools for doing deep research that we need sources from the internet. It pulls from multiple sources in real time, making it one of the best tools for researching topics online.

One of the main benefits of Perplexity is that it gives you access to multiple LLMs in one place, so you can switch models depending on what you're trying to do.

That said, we find it's much better for internet research than deep reasoning. It's strong at finding and summarizing information with sources, but not as strong as other LLMs for complex problem-solving, math, or advanced reasoning tasks.

Perplexity also offers its own web browser, Comet (an alternative to Chrome), where you can use Perplexity as your default search engine and experiment with AI agent-style browsing features.

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Categories

Perplexity fits into multiple categories based on what it actually helps you do. Each category highlights a different strength and the efficiency points it earned, helping you compare tools not just by features, but by how well they actually perform.

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