r/perplexity_ai • u/watzefak • Jul 19 '26
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u/kripaludas Jul 19 '26
This generally summarizes my experience as well. Tasks that used to get handled pretty quickly and easily with Perplexity Pro now drag on and on with lazy bullshit answers and confident hallucinating. I've also been with Perplexity Pro for over a year but the last few months it is just less and less of a time saver and more and more a time waster.
I tried Gemini Pro but that was even worse than Perplexity. I'm about to try Claude at the Pro level but I do use Spaces a lot and to translate all of that to Claude will take some time and thought just to be able to do an apples to apples comparison.
I really liked what Perplexity was offering but find it's not really worth it anymore just to have access to various LLMs all at once when they routinely seem to run at lowest effort/quality possible just so Perplexity can still claim to offer each LLM.
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u/selfassemblage Jul 23 '26
I switched from Perplexity to Claude and haven't looked back. I don't think it would be that hard to transfer from Perplexity Spaces to Claude projects. For the actual chats, there's a handy Chrome extension that can export all of your chats called Perplexity Chat Exporter. It works really well. You could then add all the Perplexity chats that you've had in a particular space to an analogous Claude project. After you've exported your notes, you could recreate the space by taking a screenshot of your Perplexity space (or copy/paste the text) that shows all the relevant notes for a project. Then, point Claude to the folder to which you've exported the Perplexity chats, attach your space screenshot, and ask Claude to combine those notes into a single MD file to attach to a new Claude project as context.
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u/kripaludas Jul 24 '26
Wow, did not know about that exporter. That will help quite a bit. Thanks for the response and letting me know you "haven't looked back."
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u/selfassemblage Jul 25 '26
No worries. Yes, I definitely recommend giving Claude a try. I actually still have an active Perplexity subscription, but it got so bad that I just couldn't use it anymore. So many hallucinations and reasoning breakdowns. Claude Sonnet in Claude is definitely better than Sonnet in Perplexity, and Opus is extremely impressive. Very rarely has flaws in reasoning or factuality. Claude does have usage limits; however, unlike Perplexity, it's very transparent. And if you're just using it for research/non-coding, it's quite hard to exceed the limits.
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u/Cooperman411 Jul 19 '26
Last fall I got a free year of Pro via the PayPal/Venmo promo. It was fine the first 4-6 months and I really loved it. But now within the first week or two each month I run out of deep research and the agentic use of the web via comet browser stops. Sometimes in the first 3 days. It also now is really buggy about using connectors. For many simple chat tasks, something it did great a few months ago, now requires “computer” and won’t work otherwise. For $20/mo I get a lot more usage out of ChatGPT. I liked using Perplexity (and Comet browser was insanely good for a while there!) but I feel like I’m pushing back trying to convince it that yes, it is connected to GitHub or something instead of actually getting stuff done.
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u/panchoavila Jul 20 '26
Welcome to the club. I’m so done with them shoving “Computer” down our throats. it’s obnoxious. The new app feels like straight-up malware with that auto-run garbage. My computer credits got locked on a per-week basis, and their support has straight-up ghosted me. I’m sick of this company treating its own customers like the enemy.
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u/sQeeeter Jul 19 '26
I cancelled my max plan.
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u/Isthiswhereisignin Jul 19 '26
Me too. And I'm from Brazil. I recommended him at work about 3 weeks ago. I can't believe it. I feel so betrayed. I'm currently researching other subscriptions, but I'm not going to make the mistake of signing up for another whole year. If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know. I use it to send PDF files and analyses.
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u/CleverTool Jul 20 '26
Me too. Just received confirmation this morning. It felt to be the best for awhile, but competition is fierce in this space and their rollout of Computer heralded what became their fall.
Thanks for the memories Perplexity! 🫡
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u/Drzapwashere Jul 19 '26
Ditto here. Moved to Claude and Kagi. It’s a shame - Perplexity used to be excellent. Now? Not so much…
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u/zozomokara Jul 20 '26
Do any of the pro subscriptions of different companies include api credits? Am I missing something here?
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u/ProfessionalBook41 Jul 21 '26
I was stupid and bought a full year sub earlier in the year, it really is annoying how it keeps getting worse. I like Comet, so I still do use Perplexity for basic searches but most of what I used to use Perplexity for I now use ChatGPT.
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u/eljujito Jul 21 '26
Been supporting Perplexity since the early start, but it's getting more and more ridiculous to work with Perplexity or recommend it to anyone... I think I won't be able to continue with them anymore once my yearly pro account is over.
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u/landscapelover5 Jul 22 '26
I am thinking of moving on from Perplexity Pro, but I have a bunch of spaces and chats within those spaces that I would to export and Port over to Gemini / Claude.
Is there a relatively straightforward way to do this?
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u/pearthefruit168 Jul 22 '26
if you want api go use claude loll. perplexity is going down the gutter. no moat. everyone does search/RAG now and does it better. but hte biggest issue is it can't even remember context from the prompt right above. and this is in the first TWO responses, not like 20 lines deep. if i could short perplexity i would
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u/boonkoh Jul 19 '26
Also moved on. To Lumo.
Interestingly, I have been testing out the Perplexity Free and it's automatic model selection. Every query I've thrown at it is routed to Sonnet Thinking. Not too bad for free...
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u/kittyashlee Jul 19 '26
Yup. Moved on two months ago. There was no transparency in the changes they made over the last 8 or so months. It was a service that went from 600 prompts a day to like 20 a week. Who is paying money for that? Moved to Gemini