{"slug": "perplexity-comet", "name": "Perplexity Comet", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 12, "warners": 5, "score": -0.688, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-06", "latest": "2026-08-14", "why": "I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 1, "warn": 5}, "spark": [0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "perplexity.ai", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/comet", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Comet", "Perplexity Comet"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 744865408, "item_id": 46554088, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554088", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-01-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the heck out of their browser on my Mac.", "excerpt": "Lowkey I wish Perplexity would do this for Comet, idk why but I use the heck out of their browser on my Mac. I dont always use the \"browser agent\" stuff (lol!), and I dont use it for EVERYTHING, but you spend so much time looking things up, and sometimes its nice to just be able to highlight text on a page and go \"yo ELI5 this for me pls I feel dumb\" and it just does it.", "context": "Mac user", "use_case": "browsing with AI explain", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"}, {"id": 740402592, "item_id": 46275162, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275162", "by": "stingtao", "date": "2025-12-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I found Comet so useful and I vibe coded my own version", "excerpt": "working on an AI browser: https://github.com/stingtao/ai-browser I found Comet so useful and I vibe coded my own version to seek AI possibility Also on an live interactive quiz service: https://live.stingtao.info/?lang=en This helped me host live event for 1,000 participants", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"}, {"id": 738075472, "item_id": 46129717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129717", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Oh man I use Comet nearly daily", "excerpt": "Oh man I use Comet nearly daily, I tried setting perplexity as my new tab page on other browsers and for some reason its not the same. I mostly use it that boring way too.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral 3 family of models released"}, {"id": 738057616, "item_id": 46128601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46128601", "by": "ecommerceguy", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice.", "excerpt": "I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice. I use pretty much all of the main ai's, chat, deep, gem, claude - all i have found little niche use case that i'm sure will rotate at some point in an upgrade cycle. there are so many ai's i don't see the point in paying for one. I'm convinced they will need ads to survive. excited to add mistral to the rotation!", "context": "", "use_case": "finance research", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral 3 family of models released"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 754164944, "item_id": 47135309, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135309", "by": "gregoryli360", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "their app quickly became a ram-hogging, flaming pile of garbage", "excerpt": "The biggest gap to bridge between browser automation and agentic AIs is the web-client interface. Perplexity\u2019s Comet attempted to do this, but their app quickly became a ram-hogging, flaming pile of garbage. Then, we had OpenClaw, which promised so much, but usually ended up gobbling tokens and making little progress. So, I thought of a lightweight alternative \u2013 why not combine the strengths of browser automation (Se", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN:Agentic Browser Automation \u2013 Lightweight Selenium and Claude Code Bridge"}, {"id": 743769714, "item_id": 46485607, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485607", "by": "barlines", "date": "2026-01-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "without need for a 3rd party browser like Comet", "excerpt": "Claude Code now does this natively without need for a 3rd party browser like Comet: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12012173-getting-started-with-claude-in-chrome", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Comet MCP \u2013 Give Claude Code a browser that can click"}, {"id": 741199441, "item_id": 46324965, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324965", "by": "frm88", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "these same AI capabilities can be tricked into executing malicious commands hidden in websites or emails", "excerpt": "I am highly sceptical of all AI features and it seems Gardner and other cyber security experts are starting to wake up as well: The programs let you outsource and automate tasks, such as online searches or writing an email, to an AI agent. The only problem is that these same AI capabilities can be tricked into executing malicious commands hidden in websites or emails, effectively turning the browser against the user.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"}, {"id": 738753201, "item_id": 46172075, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172075", "by": "KitN", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I used Comet for a while but found it extremely annoying.", "excerpt": "I was looking for a good browser. I\u2019m finally interning, and Brave has taken over as my official browser(I don\u2019t like the concept of workspaces/profiles). I used Comet for a while but found it extremely annoying. I like Zen, but I\u2019m not a fan of sidebars in browsers. Currently settled on Helium. This would have been good, but I can\u2019t seem to understand the obsession with sidebars.", "context": "intern", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nook Browser"}]}], "who": [{"by": "giancarlostoro", "context": "Mac user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554088", "date": "2026-01-09"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["ai browsing", "agentic browser", "browsing with ai explain", "scraping and structured output", "daily browsing", "finance research"], "compared": [{"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "perplexity", "name": "Perplexity", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483550", "title": "Show HN: Comet MCP \u2013 Give Claude Code a browser that can click", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491", "title": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121889", "title": "Mistral 3 family of models released", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286427", "title": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999006", "title": "What Chromium versions are major browsers are on?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135308", "title": "Show HN:Agentic Browser Automation \u2013 Lightweight Selenium and Claude Code Bridge", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 3, "warn": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {"warn": 1, "compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 788797955, "item_id": 49299872, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299872", "by": "NishanStepak", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have four browsers at home Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Comet which is an AI Browser.", "excerpt": "I use multiple browsers depending on what I am doing. I have four browsers at home Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Comet which is an AI Browser. They all have their different uses.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 768016400, "item_id": 48001025, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001025", "by": "skaul", "date": "2026-05-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "given that Perplexity doesn't have an API and blocks automated downloads", "excerpt": "It's not but given that Perplexity doesn't have an API and blocks automated downloads, I'm not sure what else to use. Explained in the docs: https://github.com/ShivanKaul/chromium-drift/blob/main/docs/version-fetching.md#perplexity-comet", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Chromium versions are major browsers are on?"}, {"id": 754164944, "item_id": 47135309, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135309", "by": "gregoryli360", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "their app quickly became a ram-hogging, flaming pile of garbage", "excerpt": "The biggest gap to bridge between browser automation and agentic AIs is the web-client interface. Perplexity\u2019s Comet attempted to do this, but their app quickly became a ram-hogging, flaming pile of garbage. Then, we had OpenClaw, which promised so much, but usually ended up gobbling tokens and making little progress. So, I thought of a lightweight alternative \u2013 why not combine the strengths of browser automation (Se", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN:Agentic Browser Automation \u2013 Lightweight Selenium and Claude Code Bridge"}, {"id": 744865408, "item_id": 46554088, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554088", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-01-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the heck out of their browser on my Mac.", "excerpt": "Lowkey I wish Perplexity would do this for Comet, idk why but I use the heck out of their browser on my Mac. I dont always use the \"browser agent\" stuff (lol!), and I dont use it for EVERYTHING, but you spend so much time looking things up, and sometimes its nice to just be able to highlight text on a page and go \"yo ELI5 this for me pls I feel dumb\" and it just does it.", "context": "Mac user", "use_case": "browsing with AI explain", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"}, {"id": 744489348, "item_id": 46530584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530584", "by": "tbocek", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Less autonomous than Comet/Playwright, with a narrower use-case, but also less risk.", "excerpt": "That's a valid concern. I took a more constrained approach for web searches for exactly this reason. Instead of giving the LLM full browser control, I built a Firefox extension that only handles web search client-side. When my local LLM (llama.cpp) needs to search, it opens DuckDuckGo in a new window, loads the result pages in tabs, extracts content with Readability.js, and feeds it back. You stay in the loop - can s", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Comet MCP \u2013 Give Claude Code a browser that can click"}, {"id": 743769714, "item_id": 46485607, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485607", "by": "barlines", "date": "2026-01-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "without need for a 3rd party browser like Comet", "excerpt": "Claude Code now does this natively without need for a 3rd party browser like Comet: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12012173-getting-started-with-claude-in-chrome", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Comet MCP \u2013 Give Claude Code a browser that can click"}, {"id": 741199441, "item_id": 46324965, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324965", "by": "frm88", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "these same AI capabilities can be tricked into executing malicious commands hidden in websites or emails", "excerpt": "I am highly sceptical of all AI features and it seems Gardner and other cyber security experts are starting to wake up as well: The programs let you outsource and automate tasks, such as online searches or writing an email, to an AI agent. The only problem is that these same AI capabilities can be tricked into executing malicious commands hidden in websites or emails, effectively turning the browser against the user.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"}, {"id": 740616369, "item_id": 46288523, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288523", "by": "cionut", "date": "2025-12-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Strawberry + Comet for scraping and structure output", "excerpt": "the last few weeks I've been working on a directory for GenAI tools for marketing. It's hard to keep track of which tools are launched almost every week now and which are relevant for which part of the job; We got inspired by the Lumascape and a few other similar initiatives: https://tools.hypd.ai/ Currently a side project.. looking for feedback or ideas of improvement; and if it picks-up I might implement them. List", "context": "", "use_case": "scraping and structured output", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"}, {"id": 740402592, "item_id": 46275162, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275162", "by": "stingtao", "date": "2025-12-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I found Comet so useful and I vibe coded my own version", "excerpt": "working on an AI browser: https://github.com/stingtao/ai-browser I found Comet so useful and I vibe coded my own version to seek AI possibility Also on an live interactive quiz service: https://live.stingtao.info/?lang=en This helped me host live event for 1,000 participants", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"}, {"id": 738753201, "item_id": 46172075, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172075", "by": "KitN", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I used Comet for a while but found it extremely annoying.", "excerpt": "I was looking for a good browser. I\u2019m finally interning, and Brave has taken over as my official browser(I don\u2019t like the concept of workspaces/profiles). I used Comet for a while but found it extremely annoying. I like Zen, but I\u2019m not a fan of sidebars in browsers. Currently settled on Helium. This would have been good, but I can\u2019t seem to understand the obsession with sidebars.", "context": "intern", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nook Browser"}, {"id": 738075472, "item_id": 46129717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129717", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Oh man I use Comet nearly daily", "excerpt": "Oh man I use Comet nearly daily, I tried setting perplexity as my new tab page on other browsers and for some reason its not the same. I mostly use it that boring way too.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral 3 family of models released"}, {"id": 738057616, "item_id": 46128601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46128601", "by": "ecommerceguy", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice.", "excerpt": "I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice. I use pretty much all of the main ai's, chat, deep, gem, claude - all i have found little niche use case that i'm sure will rotate at some point in an upgrade cycle. there are so many ai's i don't see the point in paying for one. I'm convinced they will need ads to survive. excited to add mistral to the rotation!", "context": "", "use_case": "finance research", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral 3 family of models released"}, {"id": 733392993, "item_id": 45837062, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837062", "by": "hkpatel3", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "authenticate using human credentials, making them vulnerable to prompt injection attacks", "excerpt": "Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Atlas authenticate using human credentials, making them vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. Auth-Agent solves this by giving AI agents their own credentials, enabling secure authentication for web and computer-using agents. The current solution has browser use as the example web agent and it can easily sign in with auth agent. This is fully open source. Please take a look at the repo ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Open Source Authentication for AI Agents. OIDC + OAuth 2.1"}]}