Perplexity or Claude: Which AI Tool is Right for You?

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Perplexity or Claude?

Both Perplexity and Claude are popular AI tools for good reason.

However, when deciding over Perplexity or Claude, it will depend on your specific use case and what you need from them…

When to use Perplexity

(Real time search with multiple models)

Perplexity is an AI search engine. If you’re wondering how that differs to traditional search engines like Google and Bing, the main distinction is you can ask any queries and you’re given summaries you can chat with instead of having to crawl through different websites yourself.

Tip: you can even ask itself to find you promo codes for discounts on their premium tier.

Main use cases:

Perplexity’s ability to pull and summarise information quickly makes it a great tool for research and fast information retrieval.

You can have unlimited searches on the free tier which is great for when extensive research and multiple perspectives are required.

You can read more about Perplexity’s key features and use cases in more detail in our previous article here.

When to use Claude

(Large context and complex problem solving)

Claude is a large language model (LLM) developed by AI unicorn Anthropic. It’s popular as an LLM with its large context window and grasp of nuance in human language.

You can read more about its huge context window and why that’s important in this article we wrote here.

So unlike Perplexity, Claude is not best suited for research purposes but more so for creative and problem solving use cases where it can leverage its wide context window.

Main use cases:

Claude’s ability to understand complex queries and retain context make it a great tool for customer service and content creation.

For example an AI customer service chatbot that can retain a large memory of customer data, product information, or previous support history.

Or integrated into a personalised education platform that can use large datasets to provide content more tailored to a user’s needs in real-time.

Claude’s ability to solve complex problems and write code also make it really useful as AI coding assistants to delegate repetitive work or solve bugs/issues.

If you want to use Claude, read this previous article here on when to choose which model for your LLM app.

Perplexity or Claude: Main Differences

Both AI tools are hugely popular but their main use cases mean they have a few key differences:

• Perplexity is made for answers from the web, whereas Claude can help solve complex problems and generate content for you.
• Claude has a knowledge cut off date (as a result of its constant training), whereas Perplexity has internet access. Therefore, Perplexity is better suited for time sensitive queries and research.
• Claude’s API to connect it to apps can make it a better option for business or enterprise level solutions.
• You can train or fine tune Claude with your own datasets to better fit your industry e.g Law, Finance, Software.
• Perplexity has access to multiple LLM models you can switch between.
• Perplexity has unlimited usage on the free tier whereas Claude has a daily limit.

Introducing Tak: The Best of Both Worlds

(Think of Tak as Perplexity’s older brother)

For a mix of both you can try Tak, a free AI search engine with access to real-time data for a balance of quick aggregated search summaries and a conversational interface.

For full context, we made a comparison of the 4 best AI search engines which you can read here.

Tak’s Advantage: Continuous Self Learning

Tak is much like Perplexity, but the one thing it offers that Perplexity cannot is continuous learning and adaptation for more personalised and streamlined experiences over time.

Tak constantly learns and improves on its own in the backend through knowledge graphs to map connections between different pieces of information. This helps to provide you more interconnected and contextually consistent search results without constant manual fine tuning to get what you want.

You can try out Tak for yourself here, it’s completely free to use!

Perplexity vs Claude vs Tak - Which one for you?

Sometimes the best decision can be made after trying them out for yourself.

As a quick overview:

• Perplexity is great for up to date research and information retrieval
• Claude is good for problem solving and content creation
• Tak is a good in between by offering real-time information as well as context aware conversations.

If you want the best of both worlds, Tak is the best option. It’s the only AI tool that offers both real-time AI search with continuous self learning on the backend to give you a personalised experience that gets better over time.

It’s free to use, you can try Tak here.