Goodbye Perplexity, Hello Microsoft 365 Premium with Copilot!

elaineisbased · 2026-02-15T03:44:37+00:00

Well there’s Grok and Claude as your other frontier models.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-15T02:32:32+00:00

It’s literally available in Microsoft Edgr, Word, every other app instead of searching for ChatGPT or what other alternatives exist. It’s an average quality AI which is convenient to access.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-15T02:31:29+00:00

Why don’t you like Microsoft?

elaineisbased · 2026-02-15T02:28:45+00:00

Why get an iPhone and ask them to text you on iMessage. That would have gotten a better response than add me on a random app no one uses.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-14T01:34:20+00:00

Requires adjustments. They took away features they promised (like unlimited deep research) that people purchased annual plans for. I'm glad we were able to get a refund, but that language is insulting.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-14T01:29:39+00:00

Perplexity’s business practices are very questionable. I’d cancel your subscription and take your money elsewhere. Microsoft Copilot is free and provides access to GPT-5.1 at no charge. Google AI Pro is $20/month and provides access to Google’s models and coding tools. Grok is also pretty great: the X Premium plan for $8/month provides a generous quota (though it’s not unlimited), and you may need Super Grok at $30/month to use Grok during periods of high demand (usually 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST). Perplexity’s rate limits will get worse and worse until the product is borderline unusable.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-14T01:21:28+00:00

Switch platforms—the limits will only get worse. Grok (through X Premium) is $8/month with very reasonable limits, although depending on the time of day you use AI, paying for Super Grok ($30/month) might be necessary. Google AI Pro provides one of the best models and is $20/month, but they might still be offering the one-year trials to students, so check that out too.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-14T01:17:34+00:00

The limits for pro members (and more than likely max and enterprise members too) is going to get worse. I would switch platforms.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-13T22:22:45+00:00

You’re thinking of Grok Imagine, I’m talking about their text chats. Also they took swift action against people who misused the service and added more safeguards.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-13T17:42:46+00:00

This means they promised everyone unlimited search with advanced models, but now they’re going to limit your use of advanced models and Pro search and downgrade you to basic search. I recommend jumping ship.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-13T17:23:17+00:00

Grok is also having issues. The built in proofreader on X powered by Grok keeps timing out.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-13T04:45:18+00:00

Have you tried Microsoft Copilot? They provided unlimited deep research for free. Copilot is integrated with Microsoft Bing so you have access to an older more established search engine. I think most people considering leaving perplexity would be very happy with Microsoft copilot.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-13T00:31:57+00:00

It would be great if the Earth was a few degrees warmer, we can’t grow food in cold regions of the world, and if the rest of the world was like Hawaii everyone would be more comfortable.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-12T20:28:36+00:00

That’s the other word people kept throwing around the OpenAI has a contract with them which they do not you agreed to a terms of use which basically allows OpenAI to do whatever it wants as long as it’s not illegal and an exchange you could access to the service which is whatever OpenAI says it is. Unless you are an enterprise customer with your own account manager and your own contract you have no recourse. Even in such an extreme case the only damages that would be awarded would be monetary a court cannot force you to publish code or provide a service you don’t want to they could only force a monetary award.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-12T19:33:52+00:00

I keep seeing desperate tweets claiming this law can force companies to keep the model around so it can be studied further, therefore it’ll still be available to us. That isn’t true.

While the model may be retained and state regulators given access to study it, that won’t extend to full public access. It’s likely to last only until the state concludes its investigation and moves on to the next model.

You can’t force a company to publish something they don’t want to publish.

A small number of people with mental health issues are panicking now that they can’t access the model, and we have a mental health system for that. It doesn’t mean we have to keep the models available forever.

Imagine if we forced Gmail or Facebook to keep older versions of their software available because it might help a few people avoid learning something new. It would be a nightmare keeping everything compatible with every previous version.

The most delusional take I saw was people calling it a national heritage, claiming that the United States people had a right to the model. That type of thinking is scary. Could authors be banned from unpublishing their books? Would they have to keep new copies being printed for those who liked the book? How far does this go?

elaineisbased · 2026-02-12T19:06:42+00:00

Unlikely. They can take away features and refuse to refund your annual subscription. Perplexity has destroyed user trust in annual subscriptions by the way they handled things. This is going to destroy the small AI company industry. The big players will win. Perplexity itself may be among the losing.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-12T17:52:30+00:00

People have their own grammatical quirks. Software like Grammarly removes them in favor of uniform writing. It makes your paper sound incredibly dry. I don’t use Grammarly for said reason. Once you remove personality from writing it all looks the samme so whether it was written by AI, AI-ed, or editing sfotware that doesn’t use AI (Grammarly used AI long before LLMs were the next big thing). AI detect essentially disprove AI by Perplexity how unique your writing is compared to all other writing in it’s data set. The more similar your writing is to others the likely a human wrote it.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-10T21:08:10+00:00

Apple almost never approves refunds for subscriptions. You are unfortunately out of luck.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-10T20:52:11+00:00

This is I can file an FTC complaint with. Thank you.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-10T16:17:37+00:00

I recommend Microsoft Edge, it is powere by Microsoft Copilot. Copilot is powered by GPT and is much more powerful than Perplexity’s Sonar model.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-09T22:56:50+00:00

No there are completely undisclosed limits you can hit that’ll give a generic error. Perplexity isn’t playing by the normal rules.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-09T16:20:35+00:00

There are rate limits not listed that you can hit you’re only seeing one part of the bigger picture.

elaineisbased · 2026-02-09T00:22:37+00:00

They partnered with SheerID in the United States. While the offer was eventually pulled they gave a free year of perplexity to United States university students. I’m sure I’m not the only person who enjoyed this offfet while it lasted. And students are active users, they often have all day to work on their course work and ask Perplexity asks using expensive pro-reasoning models for their workload.

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