Perplexity Comet
Browse with an AI-powered browser that summarizes pages, shops on your behalf, and answers questions through an agentic assistant built into browsing. Opened to everyone free since October 2025.
The verdict on Perplexity Comet: Researchers who want an AI browser that can navigate and extract information across multiple sites, not just answer a query Perplexity Comet is less a search tool and more a browser agent: it completes multi-step tasks across sites, filling forms and pulling information without you doing the clicking. Pricing: Free / $5/mo Comet Plus (bundled with Perplexity Pro).
Best For
Researchers who want an AI browser that can navigate and extract information across multiple sites, not just answer a query
Standout Feature
Completes multi-step browser tasks directly, filling forms and pulling information without you doing the clicking
TL;DR
A genuinely capable research agent that's still maturing, its best features sit behind the Pro plan.
Alternatives
Fit Score: use-case reference
How this is scoredPerplexity Comet scored 1 to 5 on five dimensions for the named use cases below. Part of our catalog-wide use-case reference, not a product-quality review rating.
Researchers who need to gather information across multiple sites via multi-step browser tasks, not just answer one query
4.0/5- Capability
- 5/5
- Reliability
- 3/5
- Value
- 4/5
- Ease
- 4/5
- Compatibility
- 4/5
Directly the tool's bestFor and standout: it completes multi-step browser tasks directly, filling forms and pulling information across sites, matching pros on research without leaving the page and agentic task support.
Someone needing the most mature, fully capable feature set today
2.8/5- Capability
- 3/5
- Reliability
- 2/5
- Value
- 3/5
- Ease
- 3/5
- Compatibility
- 3/5
The tool's own cons state it is newer and still maturing, and the best features sit behind the Pro plan.
Editorial judgment grounded in this tool's own published pricing, features, and our existing pros and cons, not a certification or a measured benchmark. Product quality is assessed separately under our review methodology.
Overview
Not yet reviewedProduct quality is assessed from original evidence. How reviews work.
Perplexity Comet is Perplexity AI's autonomous AI browser, designed to extend the research and search capabilities of Perplexity's existing assistant into a full web navigation agent that can complete multi-step browser-based tasks on your behalf. Rather than returning search results or answers, Comet opens a browser, handles websites, fills forms, extracts information across multiple pages, and synthesizes findings into structured outputs, functioning as a research agent that uses the open web as its data source. The tool builds on Perplexity's core competency in cited, grounded answers: all information surfaced during browsing is attributed to its source, maintaining the factual accountability that distinguishes Perplexity from general AI chat tools.
Use cases span competitive research (visiting competitor websites and summarizing their pricing and features), data gathering (collecting structured information from multiple sites in a single session), and form-based tasks (filling out inquiries or registrations across multiple sites). Comet launched in 2025 as part of Perplexity's expansion from search tool to agentic platform. Access is available through Perplexity's premium subscription tiers.
Comet positions Perplexity in the emerging AI browser and agent category alongside tools like Browser Use and Anthropic's computer use capabilities, bringing Perplexity's search-accuracy focus to autonomous web task execution.
The source of the legacy catalog rating and review count has not been substantiated. Neither is presented here as a verified review rating or included in review structured data.
Workflow Fit Scores are separate, use-case-specific editorial judgments, not user-review averages. Read the Fit Score methodology.
- • Research without leaving the page
- • Strong citations
- • Agentic task support
- • Newer, still maturing
- • Best features behind Pro
Key Features
- Built-in AI assistant
- Cited answers and summaries
- Tab and task automation
- Context-aware browsing
Trust & Data
Verified 2026-09
- Training on your data
- Opt-out availableFree, Pro, and Max users have AI data retention used for model training enabled by default with a per-account opt-out toggle; Enterprise data is never used for training, and third-party model providers are contractually prohibited from training on any Perplexity user data. This policy applies to the Perplexity account generally, since there is no Comet-specific governance page.
- Compliance
- Not published
- Retention
- Enterprise uploaded files are retained 7 days; general user data is retained as long as necessary for stated purposes; previously collected training data cannot be deleted after opting out later.
- Export
- Not published
Sources: perplexity.ai/privacy notice, perplexity.ai/10354963 are third party model providers training on my data.html
As published by the vendor. Verify independently before purchase decisions.
Our Take
That's a meaningfully different capability from answering a single query, and it's the right frame for evaluating it. The core access is free and available to everyone since October 2025, but the most capable research features sit behind the Pro plan. It's still maturing as a product. Researchers who regularly need to gather information across multiple sites, not just get an answer to a single question, are the best early fit.