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⏳ Timestamps

00:00 - OpenAI Deep Research vs. Perplexity Deep Research Overview

01:00 - Perplexity Deep Research: Free vs. Paid Plan Breakdown

02:30 - Performance Benchmark: Perplexity vs. OpenAI Deep Research

04:19 - How to Enable and Use Perplexity Deep Research

05:52 - Running a Head-to-Head Research Test: OpenAI vs. Perplexity

08:29 - Results Comparison: Accuracy, Sources, and Depth

11:40 - Final Verdict: Which Deep Research Tool is Best?

13:52 - Future of AI-Powered Deep Research

Transcript

so guys I've been using the $200 a month

chat GPT Pro Plan and really leveraging

some of its new features like 01 Pro and

most importantly deep research and if

you guys aren't familiar deep research

is an agent that uses reasoning to

synthesize large amounts of online

information and complete multi-a

research tasks for you and it's going to

deliver PhD level quality output but one

of the main problems like I mentioned is

that it is hidden behind a $200 a month

pay wall from a Clos Source company so

over the last 5 days on this channel

I've gone over different ways on how you

can use open- Source Alternatives like

open source deep research another rapper

which is a gooey interface for open-

Source deep research web UI which is

made by browser use which allows you to

use any single llm with deep research

and then skura is a video that I made

yesterday which is an 100% free deep

research alternative where you can

literally go to their website right here

and perform deep research without having

to enter in your API keys or even log in

but now there's a new kit on the Block

that is allowing us to do deep research

and guess what it's 100% for free now

there are some limitations on the free

plan which we'll dive into in just a

second but this new player is perplexity

which if you don't know has already been

a huge Powerhouse when it comes to

research and doing queries that pull

information from the web so in today's

video I'm going to show you how you can

do deep research with perplexity for

free or for only $20 a month on their

Pro Plan opposed to spending $200 a

month with open AI deep research and

we're going to run some different

queries go over some different best

practices with perplexities deep

research and run that same deep research

with open AIS and see how the quality of

the output differs without Ado guys

let's dive right into it all right guys

so perplexity announced this deep

research feature about 11 hours ago so

now you can see deep research is

available to everyone for free up to

five queries per day for nonsubscribers

and 500 queries per day for pro users

now if you think that's a little bit low

for the free plan let's just do some

basic math here 5 * 30 which equals 150

and if you're not familiar with opening

eyes deep research you're actually

limited to a 100 queries a month so this

actually beats the limitations of open

AI just on the free plan and then on the

paid plan you could actually do up to

15,000 queries every single month with

perplexities deep research so very

powerful stuff here so the CEO of

perplexity here talking about deep

research is now a commodity thanks to

perplexity this gentleman is saying yo

WTF open AI are asking for $200 a month

when this perplexity is giving it away

this is insane another deep seek moment

and opening eyes charging 10 times more

than perplexities $20 a month or you can

even use it on the free plan which is

pretty cool and then perplexity also

tweeted out deep research on perplexity

scores 21.1% on Humanity's last exam

outperforming Gemini thinking 03 mini 01

deep seek R1 and other top models we

have also Al optimize deep research for

Speed you can see here on this test we

have open ai's deep research and then

perplexity deep research with open AI

getting about maybe a 26 and then

perplexity getting around maybe a 21 22

and then you have 03 mini high medium R1

o1 uh and then the rest of the models

right here so they mention in addition

to attaining high scores on industry

benchmarks deep research on perplexity

completes most tasks in under 3 minutes

and we're working to make it even faster

and yes I can confirm like we'll show

you in just a second their deep research

is actually very quick and as you can

see here it performs eight different

searches 25 different steps 42 different

sources so a lot of different uh sources

that it's pulling for um from the web

which is nice to see all right so all

links I cover guys in today's video

including the tweets as well as the blog

posts and perplexity will be linked down

below so here is the blog post that they

actually published right here

introducing deep research explaining how

it works research with reasoning report

writing export and share talking about

when to use deep research um for

different sectors technology current

affairs Health biography travel going

over the different tests right here

simple QA runtime stat so all the stuff

we mentioned in this blog post which

will be linked down below now let's dive

into perplexity deep research so first

things first when you come to perplexity

doai you'll see that you probably don't

have deep research on yet so all you do

to get it is you simply click on this

drop down and you'll see that you have

PR search deep research so PR search do

three times more sources and detailed

answers deep research does in-depth

reports on complex topics you also have

reasoning with R1 if you guys missed

this deep uh it has r1's reasoning

capabilities hosted in the US which is

very powerful and then reasoning with 03

mini so opening eyes newest model

reasoning so these two are very powerful

as well but we're going to go ahead of

course and use deep research now also to

for the sources right here you can set

different sources so let's say if we

just wanted to do research on something

like Reddit right here so social

discussions and options we could do that

we wanted to do just academic papers or

you know all across the web blogs

whatnot or just if we wanted to do all

I'm going to leave them all toggled for

now also too guys if you come over here

to your settings Cog keep in mind that

if you are on the Pro Plan then you can

actually change your AI model right here

so you could use uh Claud Sonet 3.5 you

could use GPT 40 Gro 2 Gemini 2.0 flash

a perplexity saer or Auto so we'll just

keep it at Claud Sonet 3.5 here all

right so we got our first query right

here and I'm actually just going to

toggle off social for this one just cuz

I tend to find when you have this

toggled on you're going to get a lot of

different Reddit citations opposed to

actual blogs and articles and whatnot so

our query here is perplexity new deep

research versus opening eyes deep

research an in-depth comparison Pros

versus cons what one is better why you

may want to use one or the other $200

per month versus $20 per month or free

and more okay we're going to go ahead

and click on search here okay so you can

see that it's actually going about doing

its research plan right here so I need

to search the web to find comparative

information between perplexity new deep

research and open ai's deep research so

we can see that it's generating

different search queries right here so

perplexity deep research versus open AI

deep research and then it's reading

different blog posts and different

information on the web here so then it's

doing another step right here so we can

see here from previous search I found

General comparisons between perplexity

and open Ai and as you can see you could

go ahead and read through this these are

its learnings that it's getting from the

previous search and then it's doing

other searches based on those learnings

and what it needs to get reading more

information doing another step right

here and continuously on doing another

step and another step right now until it

actually ends up completing the Deep

research so you could also enable

desktop notifications to get a

notification when it's done but we're

going to go ahead and wait here now

while this is actually going and we're

waiting for it to finish I'm going to do

the exact same query on open ai's deep

research so I'm going to go to opening

eye here we're going to use 03 mini high

for the model and of course we're

toggling on deep research and I'm just

going to paste in this exact same prompt

now we're going to click Send here and

the one thing that I will say that

opening AI deep research does and some

of the other open- source ones that I've

covered on this channel do as well is

when you actually initially query it

it's going to ask you some full out

questions and personally I really like

this because it allows you to provide

more context to the Deep research to get

the best quality output all right so

it's actually asking me what specific

aspects do we want to cover in this

comparison and it's giving me some

different examples like accuracy and

depth speed user interface and ease of

use I'm just going to say cover all of

that and more there's a bunch here so I

really want to showcase how powerful

deep research is so now we can see that

open AI deep research has started and

now we can go back over to perplexity

and we can see that its deep research

has complete so if we toggle these down

we can see that it took let's see it

took a bunch of different steps here

like 1 2 3 9 10 11 so 11 different steps

and then it started writing its research

report here so we can see 53 different

sources this is a lot of different

sources it pulled from and perplexity

has always been very strong when it

comes to actually research now we can

see here comparative analysis of

perplexity deep research and open AI

deep research capabilities costs and

strategic application right I'm not

going to read through this all of course

we can see executive summary right here

accuracy and benchmarks so so Benchmark

results technical capabilities right

here features and functionality research

workflows so we can see a table

comparison chart right here going over

model architecture Source integration

output format customization one thing I

will say with opening eyes deep research

is that you can use the 03 model which

is in my opinion a lot more powerful

than these models right here so you're

technically you should get a better

output and then Source integration so

100 plus sources per query academic

heavy and then perplexity 50 plus

sources uh including real time and forms

and then output format so with opening

eyes structured reports with charts

citations perplexities concise summaries

with inline citations and then

customization limited preset templates

will perplex these file uploads model

switching API access yeah now

unfortunately looking at perplex these

docs they just include chat completions

within uh the API from what I can see so

doesn't look like you can do deep

research which would be cool if they

allowed that through the API I think

that would be cool for both tools are

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efficiency analysis use case suitability

for academic research professional

environments casual use limitations and

tradeoffs conclusion this the proarch

says the conclusion is open AI if your

work demands rigorous accuracy academic

publishing legal analysis and then

budget permits $200 a month for High

State queries and then choose perplexity

if speed and cost efficiency are

priorities like startups journalists T

involve real time data and then

customization model switching Etc now if

we copy the perplexity output here and

paste it over here we can see that it

got 682 words so 5,450 characters and

from what I can see unfortunately I

don't think it shows you how long the

Deep research took but just to give you

an estimate I would say it took around 3

to 5 minutes now opening eyes will show

you how long it took and looking back

here we can see that it is still doing

its deep research right here and it

already has 19 sources so it seems like

it pulls a lot less sources typically

but it's going to be a lot more in-depth

okay and boom it is now complete we can

see that it took 8 minutes and did 19

different sources so we can see

perplexity deep research versus open AI

deep research a comprehensive comparison

it has a table chart right here going

over way more details such as accuracy

depth speed user interface query

handling cost and access sources and

citations best use cases AI capabilities

limitations unique features and then

each one of those has an individual long

section with bunch of different sources

as you can see here so it goes over a

lot of different info I'm just scrolling

very quickly as you can see okay and

then at the very end a pros and cons

summary so it goes over different things

as well going over the pros the cons for

each specific one and then a conclusion

for which platform you should choose so

of course this is a lot more in depth if

we go ahead and paste this over here we

can see that this whole entire report is

13,17 words and 84,600

of course if you can't afford or don't

want to pay $200 per month I think the

perplexity free or $20 a month plan is

something that is really good and

powerful of course if you want really

deep intricate research around a

specific topic or domain I think you

really can't be open AI deep research at

the moment even after doing a video on

pretty much every deep research tool or

open deep research tool I can definitely

say open AI is definitely the strongest

but at the same time you only get 100

queries per month you don't always need

something that is super super powerful

and PhD level quality so perplexity

gives you a lot more searches and it's

going to be shorter and more concise

even though it is getting a bunch of

different sources and I think that it's

great that we're seeing more and more

different companies or different

projects come out with deep research

because I've been using deep research

these last couple weeks and it is super

super powerful and honestly

game-changing so I hope you guys are

using it too if so let me know what your

thoughts are in the comments down below

between what is the ultimate deep

research companion is it open AI $200 a

month plan or is it perplexities free or

$20 a month plan or is it some of the

open source ones that I've covered on

this channel and if you haven't seen

those I definitely recommend checking

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