Perplexity Users Revolt as Paid AI Features Quietly Moved Behind Extra Paywalls

Perplexity AI subscribers have raised widespread complaints after several paid features were silently downgraded or locked behind additional credit-based paywalls during the third week of August 2025. The sharpest grievance centres on Comet, Perplexity's agentic browser, which was shifted to a separate 'Computer' credit meter, effectively removing a core feature that many users cited as their primary reason to subscribe. Users also reported the removal of model-usage labels, the ability to delete answers, and access to specific AI models such as Gemini, none of which were reflected in any change to the publicly listed pricing page. The recurring pattern described across Reddit threads is not a visible price increase but a quiet reduction in what an unchanged subscription actually delivers. Critics argue that routing previously included features through a secondary currency amounts to a hidden re-pricing of the product.