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Perplexity.ai is offering Verified Students: 1-Year Perplexity Pro w/ Comet/AI Powered Browser Membership for Free to Claim when you click on the 'Redeem Offer' and provide/verify your student credentials via SheerID [Details]

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Note, you must sign up for Perplexity and complete your student verification to claim this membership. You will receive an education discount/confirmation email afterwards

What is Comet?
  • Comet is a personal AI assistant browser built by Perplexity that helps you navigate software, manage your digital life, and find answers faster than ever before

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    • At the time of research, this membership is valued at $240 (100% savings) when you claim/redeem the offer as a verified student in the United States
  • About the Deal
    • Offer valid for verified students only
    • After your promotional student period, you will automatically be downgraded to a free account where you can continue using Perplexity; students may upgrade to Perplexity Pro for $4.99/month afterwards (75% discount)
    • Offer valid while promotional offer last
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Perplexity.ai is offering Verified Students: 1-Year Perplexity Pro w/ Comet/AI Powered Browser Membership for Free to Claim when you click on the 'Redeem Offer' and provide/verify your student credentials via SheerID [Details]

Thanks to community member Cobalt_Blue_FF for finding this deal

Note, you must sign up for Perplexity and complete your student verification to claim this membership. You will receive an education discount/confirmation email afterwards

What is Comet?
  • Comet is a personal AI assistant browser built by Perplexity that helps you navigate software, manage your digital life, and find answers faster than ever before

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Price Research
    • At the time of research, this membership is valued at $240 (100% savings) when you claim/redeem the offer as a verified student in the United States
  • About the Deal
    • Offer valid for verified students only
    • After your promotional student period, you will automatically be downgraded to a free account where you can continue using Perplexity; students may upgrade to Perplexity Pro for $4.99/month afterwards (75% discount)
    • Offer valid while promotional offer last
    • Please see original post/WIKI for additional details (if applicable) or check the forum comments for helpful insights/discussion
  • Additional Details
    • Additional terms/conditions may apply

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Suncatcher
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It depends on your needs. I've had both for over a year, and use them a lot, for deep work involving topics to be researched for instance, perplexity is way ahead. Although chat gpt keeps closing that gap with each update.

As one example, there is a 4 hour youtube video lecture or podcast, with chat gpt voice i can only get very superficial info from it, not from the actual transcripts, mostly from probably the topic and researching the people involved to get very generic answers. But perplexity seems to extract transcripts and gives you an in-depth summary or you can ask exact things. I.e. in which lecture was this topic heavily criticized and in what context was it defended, what were the wordings....it will tell you, chatgpt says go to that episode and listen yourself for more detaill.
Or doing projects and deep research from social media and youtube and online forums sources and revealing those sources. I.e. reliability of Rivian based on online forums, or how much can i get this paddle used on ebay vs. A new one of an inferior brand etc. It accesses a lot of things. Again chatgpt keeps catching up.
Having both is a good option. Last night perplexity had an outtage , very uncommon, and i had to go to my chatgpt (it is plus) for some of my needs, I couldn't trust its depths so this morning i repeated everything with perplexity. Perplexity also has gpt5 and gpt5 thinking access in it. But not agent making or other things like Canva that come in handy especially for coding etc. which i dont use.
NCSU2008
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I got this free from some paypal promo a few months back. I find it not nearly as good as chatgpt, idk perhaps i am just more used to chatgpt and biased...but i feel like it isn't as intuitive

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Oct 20, 2025 10:59 PM
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fictitioustacoOct 20, 2025 10:59 PM
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Quote from NCSU2008 :
I got this free from some paypal promo a few months back. I find it not nearly as good as chatgpt, idk perhaps i am just more used to chatgpt and biased...but i feel like it isn't as intuitive
Perplexity uses the same ai models as chatgpt
Oct 20, 2025 11:20 PM
66 Posts
Joined Oct 2010
v_doggOct 20, 2025 11:20 PM
66 Posts
Quote from NCSU2008 :
I got this free from some paypal promo a few months back. I find it not nearly as good as chatgpt, idk perhaps i am just more used to chatgpt and biased...but i feel like it isn't as intuitive
It depends on how you are using it. For me, Perplexity has been awesome for getting my personal stuff as well as professional work done. To be honest, it's the only AI which has given a complete product which I could use. Chatgpt and Gemini are close but it all depends what's your usage and how you plan on using it.
Chatgpt has been slow in responses these days and the final executions have not been successful.
Oct 20, 2025 11:26 PM
642 Posts
Joined Oct 2008
rawkusxOct 20, 2025 11:26 PM
642 Posts
Perplexity & Claude are amazing
Oct 21, 2025 12:12 AM
484 Posts
Joined Sep 2007
mannyvOct 21, 2025 12:12 AM
484 Posts
Quote from George_P_Burdell :
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>Perplexity agents a<br />
is it the comet browser assistant or something else?
oh, I just use perplexity.ai (the website). You can use the comet browser too.
Oct 21, 2025 12:14 AM
484 Posts
Joined Sep 2007
mannyvOct 21, 2025 12:14 AM
484 Posts
Quote from alchemista :
Not working on existing account that had prior free year.

Perplexity seems to be getting desperate and falling behind other companies.
Yeah, the free year doesn't work if you've already had a free year.

I did get a $1/month for two months offer once I tried to redeem the free year. I suppose I could just ask perplexity how to move my history to a new account so I could use the free year again. Hmm.
Oct 21, 2025 12:27 AM
96 Posts
Joined May 2020
BajaarOct 21, 2025 12:27 AM
96 Posts
Just because they tried to buy chrome, does not mean they are great. I get this info from chat gpt itself.
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Oct 21, 2025 02:44 AM
690 Posts
Joined Oct 2004
StrokerOct 21, 2025 02:44 AM
690 Posts
I got it free through Venmo about a month ago.

I've yet to find anything AI that's what I'd expect to be different from Google, but Perplexity does speed it up a little. It is a fine tool for occasional use.

I would not pay for it though.

ChatGPT is just a madlibs machine.
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Oct 21, 2025 02:52 AM
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Joined Jan 2023
WiseCrayon352Oct 21, 2025 02:52 AM
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Got Perplexity Pro from the Samsung Galaxy free year. Perplexity Pro works good for some research. Recently I've used AI to research some of my distant relatives 5-13 generations back. Perplexity choked and couldn't find anything even in Pro mode. Went to Grok and it gave me all the correct into. They're give all and take. Perplexity works great for researching the USPS Contract as a union steward. Definitely worth free.
Oct 21, 2025 03:35 AM
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DavidL8545Oct 21, 2025 03:35 AM
368 Posts
Quote from Suncatcher :
It depends on your needs. I've had both for over a year, and use them a lot, for deep work involving topics to be researched for instance, perplexity is way ahead. Although chat gpt keeps closing that gap with each update.

As one example, there is a 4 hour youtube video lecture or podcast, with chat gpt voice i can only get very superficial info from it, not from the actual transcripts, mostly from probably the topic and researching the people involved to get very generic answers. But perplexity seems to extract transcripts and gives you an in-depth summary or you can ask exact things. I.e. in which lecture was this topic heavily criticized and in what context was it defended, what were the wordings....it will tell you, chatgpt says go to that episode and listen yourself for more detaill.
Or doing projects and deep research from social media and youtube and online forums sources and revealing those sources. I.e. reliability of Rivian based on online forums, or how much can i get this paddle used on ebay vs. A new one of an inferior brand etc. It accesses a lot of things. Again chatgpt keeps catching up.
Having both is a good option. Last night perplexity had an outtage , very uncommon, and i had to go to my chatgpt (it is plus) for some of my needs, I couldn't trust its depths so this morning i repeated everything with perplexity. Perplexity also has gpt5 and gpt5 thinking access in it. But not agent making or other things like Canva that come in handy especially for coding etc. which i dont use.
outtage was AWS, not Perplexity
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Oct 21, 2025 03:38 AM
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DavidL8545Oct 21, 2025 03:38 AM
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Quote from fictitioustaco :
Perplexity uses the same ai models as chatgpt
Perplexity Pro offers the leading frontier models to its users -- you don't have to lock into 1 provider -- THAT is the advantage. Plus the way it does adhoc indexing is what makes it better than the other tools. Its Sonar model is my default & i use it multiple times a day from basic searches to work-related stuff.
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Oct 21, 2025 06:15 AM
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stranglerOct 21, 2025 06:15 AM
189 Posts
Anyone not wanting to get left behind should learn to use ai apps. At minimum it replaces a search engine and saves you a huge amount of time.

Have it teach you a new skill, search Slickdeals without digging through post. While not perfect it's a leap ahead of a search engine.

Technology might scare you but it's fairly simple. Don't be one of those people scared of learning new things.

Ps I switch from apps. I haven't even dug into video editing or photos or audio but wow.

Fear of speaking but want a YouTube channel use an ai voice over. Almost every channel is now ai voice over if you don't see a human.

Can't edit video ask it to edit in the popular style at the moment. The limits are the user itself.
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Oct 21, 2025 06:31 AM
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Peerless_WarriorOct 21, 2025 06:31 AM
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Quote from v_dogg :
It depends on how you are using it. For me, Perplexity has been awesome for getting my personal stuff as well as professional work done. To be honest, it's the only AI which has given a complete product which I could use. Chatgpt and Gemini are close but it all depends what's your usage and how you plan on using it. <br />
Chatgpt has been slow in responses these days and the final executions have not been successful.
It helped me tremendously with cutting down time to draft legal documents for review. I give it the framework and information, then it produces the template as I would on my own. It's life-changing.

I can't even tell you how helpful it has been for planning. Even for determining the best state for me to live in, and region, was simplified. I like it the most of all options.
Last edited by Peerless_Warrior October 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM.
Oct 21, 2025 06:33 AM
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Peerless_WarriorOct 21, 2025 06:33 AM
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Quote from strangler :
Anyone not wanting to get left behind should learn to use ai apps. At minimum it replaces a search engine and saves you a huge amount of time.

Have it teach you a new skill, search Slickdeals without digging through post. While not perfect it's a leap ahead of a search engine.

Technology might scare you but it's fairly simple. Don't be one of those people scared of learning new things.

Ps I switch from apps. I haven't even dug into video editing or photos or audio but wow.

Fear of speaking but want a YouTube channel use an ai voice over. Almost every channel is now ai voice over if you don't see a human.

Can't edit video ask it to edit in the popular style at the moment. The limits are the user itself.
Voice is easy to do if you have a desktop with Nvidia, and without paying anyone. I generate short media with my 4060.
Oct 21, 2025 10:30 AM
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RiceyFighterOct 21, 2025 10:30 AM
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Went though SheerID, they just verify my student edu email address. No problems, got in.

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Oct 21, 2025 10:30 AM
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robotmaster5379Oct 21, 2025 10:30 AM
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Quote from Peerless_Warrior :
Voice is easy to do if you have a desktop with Nvidia, and without paying anyone. I generate short media with my 4060.
What software are you using to generate on your own computer?

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