# Perplexity Makes Its Comet AI Browser Free on Every Platform

> Perplexity has taken its Comet browser from a $200-a-month luxury to a free download on every major platform. Launched in July 2025 as a pricey desktop-only product, Comet dropped its paywall on March 18, 2026, and now runs free on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, with agentic browsing features also folding into Samsung Internet. Comet's pitch is a browser that does things rather than just displays pages. Built on Perplexity's search and reasoning stack, its assistant can summarize articles, automate multi-step tasks, compose emails, and even make purchases on the user's behalf. For businesses, Comet for Enterprise can now be deployed through mobile device management. Pro subscribers get more still: Perplexity Computer, a personal agent with access to more than twenty models, hundreds of connectors, and a dedicated coding subagent. Going free is the aggressive move here. Agentic browsing puts Perplexity in direct collision with Google's Chrome and the wave of AI browsers arriving in 2026, and giving it away is a bid to win users by default before the category settles. The catch, as always with agents that can click buy, is how much control people are willing to hand over.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: IBM Think · Published Wednesday, July 8, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Perplexity has taken its Comet browser from a $200-a-month luxury to a free download on every major platform. Launched in July 2025 as a pricey desktop-only product, Comet dropped its paywall on March 18, 2026, and now runs free on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, with agentic browsing features also folding into Samsung Internet. Comet's pitch is a browser that does things rather than just displays pages. Built on Perplexity's search and reasoning stack, its assistant can summarize articles, automate multi-step tasks, compose emails, and even make purchases on the user's behalf. For businesses, Comet for Enterprise can now be deployed through mobile device management. Pro subscribers get more still: Perplexity Computer, a personal agent with access to more than twenty models, hundreds of connectors, and a dedicated coding subagent. Going free is the aggressive move here. Agentic browsing puts Perplexity in direct collision with Google's Chrome and the wave of AI browsers arriving in 2026, and giving it away is a bid to win users by default before the category settles. The catch, as always with agents that can click buy, is how much control people are willing to hand over.

## Source

[Read the full story at IBM Think](https://www.ibm.com/think/news/comet-perplexity-take-agentic-browser)

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