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.

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.

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

In a blog post on Friday, Perplexity introduced a new tool called Deep Research that it says can conduct “in-depth research and analysis” to deliver detailed reports in response to your questions, and it’s free for limited use.

Deep Research is currently accessible to all users. Those with free accounts are allotted up to five queries per day, while Pro users benefit from an expanded limit of 500 queries daily. Initially only available on the web, Perplexity AI plans to extend this feature to iOS, Android, and Mac platforms.

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.