Felo AI Research vs Perplexity

Felo AI Research is a research agent that turns a topic into sub-questions, searches autonomously, and synthesizes results into a report. Felo says it searches more than 200 million academic papers and global sources across 30+ languages, including live X/Twitter posts alongside web and academic material. Its conclusions include citations linking to original papers. A session can produce a structured report, presentation, mind map, or interactive web page; presentations can be customized and exported at up to about 40 pages. Felo LiveDoc can analyze uploaded PDFs, Excel files, and meeting notes with web research, and reports can be saved to Google Drive and Google Docs. The listed platforms are Android, iOS, web, and API. The free Standard plan includes 200 bonus credits per day, unlimited high-speed search, five professional searches per day, and three file analyses per day, but excludes API access. Felo Pro costs $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year and includes 15,000 credits per month, about 100 deep research tasks per month, the full model lineup, and Pro tools.

Perplexity is an answer engine that searches the open web and returns answers with inline citations. It can search files and connected apps alongside the web, and can select among more than 20 leading models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Nemotron. Deep Research conducts searches across many sources and produces a report. Access is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows, with an API also listed. The free plan has limited weekly use for simple questions. Pro costs $20 a month and adds Computer, premium data sources, web search, files, apps, model council, and model selection. Max costs $200 a month and offers higher limits for Deep Research, resource generation, file uploads, and monthly video creation. Enterprise Pro is $40 a month per seat; Enterprise Max is $325 a month per seat. Enterprise plans bill by seat, and API use requires separate credits. Perplexity lists more than 400 app connectors.