Perplexity — AI Tool for Education
The most powerful answer engine
AI search engine synthesizing real-time web information with advanced reasoning to provide comprehensive, cited answers
- Category
- Tutoring and Personalised Learning
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Rating
- 4.3/5 (15 reviews)
- Website
- https://www.perplexity.ai/
- GDPR Compliant
- Unknown
- COPPA Compliant
- Unknown
- FERPA Compliant
- Unknown
Key Features
- AI-powered web search with cited sources
- Pro Search for in-depth research
- Deep Research for autonomous investigation
- Document upload and search
- Model selection (multiple LLM backends)
- Image recognition and analysis
- Video generation (Pro/Max)
- Multimodal capabilities
- Perplexity Pages for structured reports
- API access for developers
Educator Reviews
★★★★☆
Perplexity AI is basically a search engine you can talk to. Instead of just giving you a long list of websites to click on, it reads through them for you and writes a clear summary of the answer. It also lists exactly where it got the information and suggests other questions you might want to...
★★★★☆
Perplexity is great for educators as it pulls from the most recent standards for your lesson plans, project requirements, etc. One problem I’ve run into was asking about a specific picture book and, while it did provide me some information about it, it also blended the information with another...
★★★★☆
I often compare ChatGPT and Perplexity side-by-side using similar prompts. My experience is that Perplexity tends to be more accurate, though there have been times I've run into problems. I like that it provides references for pretty much everything that it states, but sometimes those references...
★★★★☆
I was an early adopter of perplexity (Honestly, I was looking of free easy to use extra AI's for basic work), and I got to really like this. But it was limited and some results were not s detailed or accurate as other out at the time. However, it sat there in my favourites list and I just used...
★★☆☆☆
We recently developed a more comprehensive tool evaluation rubric, centering on data privacy and security. We discovered that the free version of Perplexity is not FERPA/COPPA compliant. In order to get that level of security a school will need to be a paid subscriber. We know there's only so...