In a announcement on Friday, Perplexity introduced a new tool called Deep Research that it says can conduct “in-depth research and analysis” to deliver detailed reports in response to your questions, and it’s free for limited use. This launch follows shortly after OpenAI announced its own tool for deep research… which itself followed Google’s December announcement of Gemini. Perplexity’s tool is initially available only on the web, but it will soon be accessible via the iOS, Android, and Mac apps.
Introducing Deep Research on Perplexity.
Deep Research lets you generate in-depth research reports on any topic.
Available to everyone for free—up to 5 queries per day for non-subscribers and 500 queries per day for Pro users. pic.twitter.com/obovx7YEUF
— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) February 14, 2025
Perplexity states that its Deep Research “excels at a range of expert-level tasks — from finance and marketing to product research” and takes approximately 2-4 minutes to generate an answer. During this period, it “performs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and reasons through the material.” Upon completion, its reports can be shared or exported as a PDF. The company asserts that it outperforms competitors — like OpenAI’s o3-mini and o1, and DeepSeek-R1 — on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark, achieving a 21.1 percent accuracy score (notably lower than OpenAI’s score on this benchmark).
According to a tweet from the company, free users will be restricted to five queries per day, while Pro subscribers will have access to 500.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/perplexity-has-its-own-deep-research-tool-now-too-224653030.html?src=rss
