Perplexity Comet
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I use the heck out of their browser on my Mac.”
“I found Comet so useful and I vibe coded my own version”
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“Oh man I use Comet nearly daily”
“I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice.”
Caveats and dissent
“their app quickly became a ram-hogging, flaming pile of garbage”
“without need for a 3rd party browser like Comet”
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“these same AI capabilities can be tricked into executing malicious commands hidden in websites or emails”
“I used Comet for a while but found it extremely annoying.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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- Show HN:Agentic Browser Automation – Lightweight Selenium and Claude Code Bridge 1 mention
Also written as Perplexity Comet. Data: perplexity-comet.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“I have four browsers at home Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Comet which is an AI Browser.”
“given that Perplexity doesn't have an API and blocks automated downloads”
“their app quickly became a ram-hogging, flaming pile of garbage”
“I use the heck out of their browser on my Mac.”
“Less autonomous than Comet/Playwright, with a narrower use-case, but also less risk.”
“without need for a 3rd party browser like Comet”
“these same AI capabilities can be tricked into executing malicious commands hidden in websites or emails”
“Strawberry + Comet for scraping and structure output”
“I found Comet so useful and I vibe coded my own version”
“I used Comet for a while but found it extremely annoying.”
“Oh man I use Comet nearly daily”
“I use their browser called Comet for finance related research. Very nice.”
“authenticate using human credentials, making them vulnerable to prompt injection attacks”