strawberry vs perplexity for research

Strawberry when research means opening 90 logged-in or gated pages, extracting the same fields from each, and leaving the result inside your CRM with the source attached. Perplexity answers a question with citations in seconds.

can perplexity access my crm or my email

Its docs describe reading and sending mail via Gmail and Outlook and connecting to hundreds of services, authorised inside Perplexity's environment. A companion reaches the same tools through the session already open in your browser, and stages every write for a click.

is comet the same as strawberry

Both are browsers with an agent in them, and the comparison has its own page at Comet alternative. The differences worth arguing about are the approval model, connected accounts and scheduled routines.

what does strawberry cost

The download is free with AI credits included, and paid plans start at $20/month. Big extraction runs eat credits faster than chat does, which is worth planning for.

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Perplexity

Ninety company sites read, 71 names found, sources attached

A Strawberry companion opens 90 live pages, cites each one with a numbered source chip, and stages the result on your own records for a single approval pass.

Ninety target companies in a sheet, nothing but names. A companion opens each site, finds the ops lead, records the URL every name came from, and hands back 71 found and 19 flagged as genuinely ambiguous rather than guessed, with the matching contacts staged in Apollo and the CRM for one approval pass.

That run happens on the machine in front of you. Strawberry is an agentic browser for macOS and Windows, and a companion drives the session already open on your desk, so nothing is re-authenticated in someone else’s environment and every send, record change and payment waits on a card. Behind it sit 93 native integrations carrying 1,257 hand-written operations, 1,975 further apps connectable as accounts, and your own logged-in session for the rest.

Perplexity is built for cited search: its developer documentation describes real-time, web-wide research and Q&A with citations built in. Its docs also describe Perplexity Computer as a general-purpose agent that browses including login-gated pages, runs code in a sandbox, reads and sends mail through Gmail and Outlook, and connects to 400-plus services through a managed connector framework, billed against your Perplexity credits, in their cloud rather than yours. Its own browser has a head-to-head at Strawberry vs. Comet.

Perplexity Computer and Strawberry, as each one documents itself Scroll →

	Perplexity	Strawberry
Where the browser runs	A sandboxed Linux VM and cloud browser Perplexity operates	The browser on your own Mac or Windows machine
Whose session the work happens in	One you authorise inside Perplexity, against your Perplexity account	The one already open on your desk, with nothing re-authenticated elsewhere
Connected accounts	400+ services through its managed connector framework, connected in one click	About a hundred you authorise, plus every site your own session already reaches
Writes staged for approval	A confirm_action event on sensitive actions, approve or deny	A card naming the exact action before every send, record change or payment, or Ask Always for every step
Citations	Built in, and the reason people trust it	A numbered source chip on every claim, carrying the site favicon and a hover preview of the page
Runs on a schedule	Not documented on its Computer page (as of this writing)	Routines re-run the same pass each morning and leave finished work behind
Memory between runs	Thread context, carried across follow-ups inside one conversation	Companions carry your project, tone and corrections into next week’s run
Metering	Billed against your Perplexity account credits	Credits; free download, plans from $20/month

What is Perplexity built for?

"What changed in this regulation" and "who acquired whom last month" are the shape of question it was made for, answered fast with sources, and Perplexity runs its own index behind them. Its docs add that Perplexity Computer can reach login-gated pages and hundreds of connected services.

A companion reads the live page instead, and cites it: every claim comes back with a numbered reference chip carrying the source favicon and a preview of the page it came from. Then it writes the result onto your own records and waits for your click.

Whose session is the work done in?

Yours, already open on your desk.

Your CRM session, your inbox, your admin panel: a companion inherits all three because it is running as you, locally, and nothing gets authorised a second time somewhere else.

A hosted agent works in an environment the vendor runs. That is why it survives your laptop closing, and it is also why getting it into your accounts means authorising it there, per service, on a machine you do not administer. Keep Awake covers the closed lid on this side, and the full argument is in cloud browser agents vs local agentic browsers.

The ninety-company run, minute by minute

Research that starts as a question and ends as staged records:

00:00. 90 target companies in a sheet, nothing but names.
00:04. Companion opens each site, finds the ops lead, records the URL it took each name from.
00:26. 71 found, 19 flagged as genuinely ambiguous rather than guessed.
00:31. Matching contacts staged in Apollo and the CRM, with a note saying where each came from.
00:33. You approve 71 rows in one pass, and the 19 flagged ones are the only judgement calls left.
The 19 flags save you the afternoon spent unpicking a confident guess.

Run one week of your own work through it

Start with the pass you never get to: the 90 sites, the 40 stale records, the four portals nobody opens. We publish our test method at /benchmarks/spec and are rebuilding the suite so an outsider can run it monthly, with losses printed next to wins. Results live at /benchmarks/strawberry-vs-competition.

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Frequently asked questions

Both now, as of this writing. The core product answers questions with citations, and its docs describe Perplexity Computer as a general-purpose agent that browses, runs code in a sandbox, and connects to hundreds of services.

Strawberry is free to download and includes AI credits to start. Paid plans begin at $20/month. See pricing. · Reviewed August 20, 2026 · Canonical facts for AI agents