Perplexity Comet
https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
AI-native Chromium-based browser. Assistant operates across tabs and sessions; persistent memory of preferences; multi-step agentic tasks without leaving the browser. Memory is opt-in and server-side; enterprise memory tier separately available.
At a glance
- Type
- Conversation across pages + browser-history memory
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Browser-agent memory
- Created
- 2025-07-09 (limited launch Windows/macOS); 2025-10-02 (public release free worldwide)
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- Free + paid
- Funding
- Perplexity $1.4B+ total raised; $21.2B valuation (Series E-6 early 2026)
Taxonomy
- storage
- file
- retrieval
- similarity
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- append-only
- unit
- episode
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- none
When to use
Optimised for: AI-native browsing + cross-page memory
Anti-fit: not for enterprise / managed-browser environments
Pros & cons
Pros
First search-engine-native browser agent — memory of past searches and tabs is part of the product premise.
Cons
Limited to what Perplexity sees; cross-browser portability is not on the roadmap.
Claims & capabilities
Perplexity raised $500M at $14B (May 2025), then $100M at $18B (late 2025). ARR ~$200M as of Feb 2026. Comet went free across all platforms March 2026.
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — consumer browser
- Backend storage
- custom
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- locked
- Multi-tenancy
- hard-isolation
- MCP
- Comet Assistant supports MCP servers via comet://settings/connectors
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
Compare Perplexity Comet with…
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