{"name":"Comet","tagline":"Perplexity's agentic browser — free download; Comet Plus is a $5 journalism add-on.","url":"https://www.perplexity.ai/comet","category":"productivity","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"browser free worldwide; Comet Plus $5/mo standalone (included with Perplexity Pro $20/mo or Max $200/mo); Comet Agent quotas follow Pro/Max on the hub pricing table","free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"api":false,"self_host":false,"verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"A separate product from Perplexity search: Chromium with an assistant that can click and fill. The browser itself went free. Comet Plus is publisher access at $5, not the browser license. Agent depth still tracks the Perplexity seat. This pass hit Cloudflare/timeouts on the Comet URLs — receipts are the Plus announcement and hub pricing, not a live install. Not Dia.","limitations":["perplexity.ai/comet timed out for this bot; confirm download in a browser.","Comet Agent is quota-gated on Free vs Pro/Max — the free browser is not unlimited agent.","Comet Plus is journalism access, not more agent compute.","This is not a second Perplexity search card; citations still live on perplexity.ai."],"strengths":["Chromium-based assistant browser that can click and fill forms.","The browser itself is free; Comet Plus is a cheap $5 journalism add-on.","Agent quotas follow the existing Perplexity Pro/Max seat structure."],"use_for":["Users who want an AI assistant baked into the browser rather than a separate tab.","Existing Perplexity subscribers who can reuse Pro/Max agent quotas."],"skip_when":["You need a guaranteed live download; the Comet URLs timed out during verification.","You expect the free browser to include unlimited agent actions.","You want a standalone search product rather than a browser assistant."],"receipts":["https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet-plus","https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/pricing"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"last_verified":"2026-08-24","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"comet","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/comet/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}