Perplexity is listed under AI Search & Answer Engines, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Cited, real-time answers (1B+ queries/quarter). It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at perplexity.ai.
Perplexity is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 426 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Perplexity works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, iOS and Android.
Perplexity does 4 things the catalog singles out: Cited, real-time answers (1b+ queries/quarter); focus modes and file uploads; comet browser and spaces; strong free tier.
Metaso AI Search (Mita) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Search & Answer Engines sub-category and is free. Morphic, Scira and Baidu AI Search also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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