A new Perplexity Pro user complains that their Claude AI quota and credits are consumed extremely quickly, prompting the app to push them towards a more expensive 'Max' plan.

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        "excerpt": "I would strongly recommend looking into services other than perplexity if you're debating spending $200/month. you could get one of the highest chatgpt tiers for that or claude or anything else, which provides you with *so* much more than Perplexity does as a third party model proxy",
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        "excerpt": "check you're using Search and not Computer in Perplexity. Computer is the one that burns credits.",
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        "excerpt": "Depending on what you want to achieve. If is R&D with Some computer utilization, go Max, build the first round in Opus, build skills and all you're going to use, then keep using GLM",
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