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Who is Perplexity best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is Perplexity best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Best use cases for Perplexity
- Products where the core user experience is AI search with citations
- Teams that want to avoid building retrieval, browsing, and citation UX from scratch
- Use cases focused on discovery, research, and “find the answer with sources” flows
- Organizations that prioritize UX speed over deep orchestration control
Who should avoid Perplexity?
- You need full control over prompts, tools, routing, and evaluation of a custom workflow
- Your product requires deterministic automation with strict structured outputs
- You require self-hosting or strict data residency control
Upgrade triggers for Perplexity
- Need deeper orchestration control beyond a productized search UX
- Need domain-specific retrieval and citation control for compliance requirements
- Need multi-step workflows and tool use that exceed a search-first product model
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.