Perplexity throttles PRO subscribers without prior notice: Difference between revisions
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Up to the event, Perplexity had offered 600 daily Deep Research queries, which is the mode that most distinguish the AI platform. It takes 3-5 minutes for the answer, acting like an agent, and 50 Labs queries, which takes around 10 minutes to complete the iterations, and this is a mode to generate outputs that are entire webpages/apps. | Up to the event, Perplexity had offered 600 daily Deep Research queries, which is the mode that most distinguish the AI platform. It takes 3-5 minutes for the answer, acting like an agent, and 50 Labs queries, which takes around 10 minutes to complete the iterations, and this is a mode to generate outputs that are entire webpages/apps, and one of the main reasons why customers subscribes to the PRO plan. | ||
There is no published limit, the values are only shown on the phone app when creating queries, and were available on the webapp before the change, but the new UI after the change has hidden these values from the browser version. | There is no published limit, the values are only shown on the phone app when creating queries, and were available on the webapp before the change, but the new UI after the change has hidden these values from the browser version. | ||
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*Research: '''600/day -> 20/month''' | *Research: '''600/day -> 20/month''' | ||
*Labs: '''50/month -> 25/month''' | *Labs: '''50/month -> 25/month''' | ||
Since the new web UI didn't show the new limits and no announcement has been done, users have exhausted their monthly allowance in less than a day, having now to wait 1.5 days before they could make another query. This is notably important for users that renew monthly, and a break of trust for annual subscribers, which mid-term has found themselves with a service different from the one they've subscribed to. [[File:2026-02-08-perplexity-new-limits-comparison.webp|alt=Screenshot of queries limits before and after.|thumb|Comparison between queries limits before and after the 2026-02-05 incident.]] | |||
[[File:2026-02-08-perplexity-new-limits-comparison.webp|alt=Screenshot of queries limits before and after.|thumb|Comparison between queries limits before and after the 2026-02-05 incident.]] | |||
==Consumers response== | ==Consumers response== | ||
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One user has started a petition<ref>{{Cite web |last=Desm |first=Mark |date=2026-02-09 |title=Hold Perplexity accountable for unlimited claims |url=https://www.change.org/p/hold-perplexity-accountable-for-unlimited-claims |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260210234656/https://www.change.org/p/hold-perplexity-accountable-for-unlimited-claims |archive-date=2026-02-11 |access-date=2026-02-11 |website=change.org}}</ref> on change.org, over 80 people have signed on the first day. Perplexity is actively removing the petition link whenever gets posted on the server. | One user has started a petition<ref>{{Cite web |last=Desm |first=Mark |date=2026-02-09 |title=Hold Perplexity accountable for unlimited claims |url=https://www.change.org/p/hold-perplexity-accountable-for-unlimited-claims |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260210234656/https://www.change.org/p/hold-perplexity-accountable-for-unlimited-claims |archive-date=2026-02-11 |access-date=2026-02-11 |website=change.org}}</ref> on change.org, over 80 people have signed on the first day. Perplexity is actively removing the petition link whenever gets posted on the server. | ||
== Perplexity response == | ==Perplexity response== | ||
There has been no official communication, but one of the moderators of the Discord server has expressed their opinion<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-02-08 |title=Moderator mares opinion |url=https://discord.com/channels/1047197230748151888/1111786888626438245/1470033172573192242 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-02-11 |website=Discord}}</ref> on why this has happened: | There has been no official communication, but one of the moderators of the Discord server has expressed their opinion<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-02-08 |title=Moderator mares opinion |url=https://discord.com/channels/1047197230748151888/1111786888626438245/1470033172573192242 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-02-11 |website=Discord}}</ref> on why this has happened: | ||