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Cloud and tool cost

Perplexity pricing is too high or keeps changing

2 posts from 2 people2d activeSteady, +1 this weekunverified

Posts per day

Posts per day2 posts, Sep 21 to Oct 29

The posts behind it

App Store reviewsPerplexity App Store reviewsOct 24

Super Cash Grabby

...actual opportunity to actually use it for 5 minutes would be great too? Also the usage is broken up into so many arcane subtypes you will never really know how close you are to the next paywall, which appears to be the goal.

App Store reviewsPerplexity App Store reviewsSep 21

TOO EXPENSIVE

TRIED USING THE COMPUTER AND ASK TO GENERATE A MOVIE/VIDEO AND IT TOOK ALMOST 30 MINUTES AND EXPENSIVE TO! I HAD TO KEEP BUYING CREDIT JUST TO FINISH ONE TASK!

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Evidence

2 posts from 2 people in 1 place, about 1 a week over 34 days. Mostly on Perplexity App Store reviews.

Frustration Frustration 0 of 3· Seen on App Store reviews

How it was grouped

Posts that state a pain and match the "tool-pricing" rule about Perplexity. First post Sep 21, 2026, latest Oct 24, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method

The same problem elsewhere

Tool prices rise faster than the value they give

12 posts from 12 people on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub issues.

Claude pricing is too high or keeps changing

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Slack pricing is too high or keeps changing

4 posts from 4 people on App Store reviews.

Claude Code pricing is too high or keeps changing

3 posts from 3 people on Hacker News, Reddit.

Anthropic pricing is too high or keeps changing

2 posts from 2 people on Hacker News. Unverified.

OpenAI pricing is too high or keeps changing

2 posts from 2 people on Reddit, Hacker News. Unverified.

Other Perplexity problems

Perplexity app gets 1 and 2 star reviews

Top post: "perplexity: Agent API requests send Chat Completions content blocks (`text`, `image_url`) instead of", one of 51 posts from 51 people on App Store reviews, GitHub issues.

Trouble with Perplexity scam

Top post: "Scam", one of 4 posts from 4 people on App Store reviews.

Trouble with Perplexity terrible

Top post: "Terrible communication and connection", one of 3 posts from 3 people on App Store reviews.

Trouble with Perplexity credits

Top post: "After 10 minutes use, asking me buy credits", one of 3 posts from 3 people on App Store reviews.

Trouble with Perplexity useless

Top post: "Vague useless information", one of 3 posts from 3 people on App Store reviews.

Trouble with Perplexity garbage

Top post: "GARBAGE - deep research and various other failures", one of 2 posts from 2 people on App Store reviews. Unverified.

Perplexity upgrades break working setups

2 posts from 2 people on GitHub issues, App Store reviews. Unverified.

History

First seen with 2 posts.

Oct 29, 2026