Perplexity AI is now offering Deep Research for free. The feature takes extra time to go over multiple sources online and use reasoning models to spit out a detailed report, giving you more detail than a standard AI search.

Need an expert on a hot topic today? Perplexity promises its Perplexity Deep Research can deliver the information you need. Does it? Let's find out.

At launch, Perplexity’s Deep Research tool will be free for all logged-in web users. It will roll out to iOS, Android, and Mac. However, only Perplexity Pro subscribers will get unlimited queries. Others will have to contend with a limited number of answers per day, Perplexity said.

Perplexity has become the latest AI company to release an in-depth research tool, with a new feature announced Friday. Google unveiled a similar feature