# Perplexity's Comet AI browser now free worldwide across iOS, Android, Mac, Windows

> Perplexity has made its Comet browser free worldwide, across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows, after previously gating it behind a $200-a-month subscription. That price drop turns what had been a premium curiosity into something anyone can try. Comet's pitch is that it is built AI-first rather than being a chatbot bolted onto an existing browser. An assistant lives inside every page, able to read context, suggest and follow links, pull together information across multiple tabs, and take actions on your behalf, which is the agentic behavior that browser makers are all now chasing. Perplexity describes it as fast enough to live in and agentic enough to be useful, while admitting it still gets rough around the edge cases. The move is as much strategic as generous. Making an agentic browser free is a bid for daily habit and scale in a space where Google, OpenAI, and others are converging on the same idea, that the browser, not the chat box, may become the main surface where people actually use AI. Worth a look if you are curious where everyday AI is heading.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: CNBC · Published Thursday, July 23, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Perplexity has made its Comet browser free worldwide, across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows, after previously gating it behind a $200-a-month subscription. That price drop turns what had been a premium curiosity into something anyone can try. Comet's pitch is that it is built AI-first rather than being a chatbot bolted onto an existing browser. An assistant lives inside every page, able to read context, suggest and follow links, pull together information across multiple tabs, and take actions on your behalf, which is the agentic behavior that browser makers are all now chasing. Perplexity describes it as fast enough to live in and agentic enough to be useful, while admitting it still gets rough around the edge cases. The move is as much strategic as generous. Making an agentic browser free is a bid for daily habit and scale in a space where Google, OpenAI, and others are converging on the same idea, that the browser, not the chat box, may become the main surface where people actually use AI. Worth a look if you are curious where everyday AI is heading.

## Source

[Read the full story at CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/perplexity-ai-comet-browser-free-.html)

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