Perplexity
App : A product you use directly
Answer engine with clickable sources and deep research.
The research and monitoring tool that saves the most time.
Security reflects where data goes, requested permissions and incidents on record at the verification date. It is not a guarantee of zero risk: check the deployment mode and the connections you enable.
What it does, concretely
Finding reliable information online takes time: you need to open multiple tabs, cross-reference sources, and synthesize everything yourself. Perplexity solves this by searching the web in real time and returning a direct answer with clickable, verifiable citations.
In practice, you ask a question in plain language. The tool simultaneously searches many sources, cross-references the results, and produces a structured answer with numbered citations linking back to the original pages. Pro Search goes further by asking clarifying questions and consulting more sources before responding.
Perplexity suits students, researchers, journalists, professionals doing competitive intelligence, and anyone who needs recent, sourced information quickly. The free tier covers everyday use; the Pro plan at $20/month unlocks unlimited deep searches, AI model selection, and file uploads.
The tool is less suited to long creative tasks (writing, open brainstorming) or highly specialized topics where available web sources are scarce. Like any AI system, it can produce inaccurate citations: it is advisable to click through to sources to verify important information.
What it offers
- ·Real-time web search: the tool queries the web on every request and delivers up-to-date information, including on recent news.
- ·Clickable citations: every answer includes numbered source references linking back to the original pages, allowing you to verify information.
- ·Pro Search: an in-depth mode that asks clarifying questions, consults more sources, and synthesizes complex answers (limited on the free tier, unlimited on paid plans).
- ·Focus modes: filters that restrict the search to specific source types such as academic publications, social media, videos, or financial data.
- ·Deep Research: generates a structured, comprehensive report by analyzing hundreds of sources in minutes, exportable as a PDF or shareable online (paid).
- ·Collections and Spaces: topic-specific research spaces with custom instructions to organize and retrieve your research (Spaces available on paid plans).
- ·File uploads: attach PDFs, CSVs, and other documents to analyze them alongside web search results (unlimited on paid plans).
- ·AI model selection: choose from multiple models such as GPT-4, Claude, or Gemini depending on the task (paid).
In practice
- Price
- Freemium · from 17 €
- Commercial use
- Commercial use: yes
- Available on
- web, ios, android, chrome
- FR interface
- Yes
Security and data
- Rating
- Security: one caveat, see the card
- Your data
- Data with the vendor
- Known incidents
- Aucun majeur.
- Maintenance
- Active
Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 January 2022