Original Reddit post

  • The plan shrank three times in eight months. Nov 2025: models silently rerouted (“an engineering bug”). Feb 2026: Deep Research from ~600 runs/day to ~20/month. May 2026: Pro searches halved to 100/week — mid-term, including for people who prepaid a year.
  • Limits (113 posts) and price/value (121) dwarf every other complaint cluster. The quota posts come with screenshots and API responses.
  • Every named Max defender I could find runs heavy agent workloads. The loudest one admits search isn’t his use case.
  • Google Play: 4.6 stars, 2M ratings. Trustpilot: 1.5, 82% one-star. Both are true, for different doors.
  • Perplexity’s own pricing page publishes no numbers for Pro. Most of the primary sourcing is threads from this sub, so credit where it’s due. Full write-up, method, and the open dataset available. submitted by /u/LAfreightguy

Originally posted by u/LAfreightguy on r/ArtificialInteligence