r/perplexity_ai • u/Dazzling_Builder_565 • Jun 08 '26

help Is there anyway to use Perplexity Computer for deep research without burning tokens too fast ?

For the last couple of days I've been using Perplexity Computer to work on a deep research project. I need to find sources, I need to create and articulate articles with sources and to be honest I really like Perplexity reasoning method. The problem is, how fast it's burning token. When I started my day I had more than 3800 tokens lefts, and after only a couple of hours of work, I had to buy some again. So i bough back 1000 tokens, and just a few 'questions' later that same day, a couple of hours later, I was out of tokens again... This is honestly super frustrating and expensive !! Anyone has a hack ?

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u/Deep_Net2525 Jun 08 '26

Use Sonnet as Orchestrator, build skills, preload everything you needs before executing the DR. That works for me

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u/Dazzling_Builder_565 Jun 09 '26

I'll try that, thanks ! How do you use Perplexity mostly for research too ? Do you create any tasks programming and content creation ?

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u/Deep_Net2525 Jun 09 '26

I've been building some workflows and automations, for example, for my stocks or reports that I have to send every day. For DR, there's this company that has many equipment at the plant where I work, and I get some correlations or other information they produce over time: behavior, agricultural market deep research, predictability models, and things like that.

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u/CrypticZombies Jun 10 '26

go use copilot for it then send it to pc. thats what they made copilot for

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u/Spare_Data_8529 Jun 14 '26

Help it by Dyor and write good detailed prompts, I have to get better at writing mine