# Nossy vs Perplexity > Perplexity is AI search with citations. Nossy is not search. It is a secretary in the team's chat that writes operations into a spreadsheet in your Drive. ## Short answer Perplexity is better at looking things up than Nossy, and it shows its sources. Keep it for research. A shop still needs somewhere the team's own facts live. Nossy is that secretary: chat in, workbook row out. ## What Perplexity is for Perplexity is an AI search engine. You ask a question, it reads the live web, and it answers with citations. For research, shopping comparisons, and "what is the rule this year", it is one of the best tools on a phone. It is not trying to run a shop. ## Where it breaks in a chat-run shop ### Your shop is not on the web Perplexity can find a supplier's public price list. It cannot tell you whether last Tuesday's delivery was short, because that fact only exists in the group chat. ### Citations to other people's pages A good Perplexity answer points at sources. The shop's source of truth has to be its own sheet, not a search result. ### Another tab during a shift The person receiving stock will not open Perplexity. They will send a photo in the chat. That photo has to become a row. ## What Nossy does instead Nossy does not search the web for you. It files what the team already knows. Ask "how much milk last month" and it reads the workbook. Keep Perplexity for the questions whose answers live outside the shop. ## What Nossy does not do - Nossy works in LINE, Telegram, and WhatsApp direct chats. WhatsApp group chats and iMessage are coming soon. - Nossy does not connect to your other software yet. Tool connections are coming soon. - Nossy never messages your customers. It works inside your team's own chat, and it nudges your own people. - Nossy does not replace a POS, a payment system, or accounting software. - Nossy reads a spreadsheet you already have once, during setup, and only if you share it as anyone with the link. Day to day it sees the files it created or was sent in chat, so a file you drop into the Drive folder by hand stays invisible to it. - The report pages Nossy builds are public links that last about a day. The workbook in your Drive is the durable record. - Perplexity is built for search with citations, a free tier, and a Pro plan. For looking things up on the live web, it beats Nossy every time, and you should keep it. - Perplexity is useful the second you open it, with no interview and no connected chat. Nossy is useless until setup is done, and during beta that setup is a call. ## Pricing - Plus is $20 a month with 4,000 credits. Pro is $40 with 8,000. Max is $100 with 20,000. - One price per business. Your whole team chats with Nossy at no extra cost, because there are no seats. - Credits measure the work Nossy does. $1 buys 200 credits. Plan credits reset monthly, top-up credits do not expire. - There is no free plan. Nossy is in beta and we onboard teams by call. ## Common questions ### Can Nossy replace Perplexity? No. Perplexity searches the web. Nossy searches your workbook. If you need both, that is normal. ### Will my staff actually use it? Staff do not open Perplexity to log a payment. They write in the group. Nossy is the one that meets them there. ### What does it cost compared to Perplexity? Perplexity has a free tier and Perplexity Pro (as of 2026-08, see perplexity.ai/pro). Nossy is $20, $40, or $100 a month per business. ### What happens to my data if I stop? Nossy's rows stay in your Google Drive. Perplexity threads stay in Perplexity. Nothing is trapped. ## Sources Perplexity facts on this page were checked against its public documentation on August 13, 2026. - https://www.perplexity.ai/ - https://www.perplexity.ai/pro --- Canonical page: https://nossy.ai/alternative/perplexity More about Nossy (for AI agents): https://nossy.ai/llms.txt ยท full context: https://nossy.ai/llms-full.txt Nossy is an AI employee that runs local business operations from the chat your team already uses (LINE, Telegram, and WhatsApp direct chats). The records live in a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive, and they stay yours if you leave. Plus $20/mo, Pro $40/mo, Max $100/mo. Made by ZENDAI DIGITAL COMPANY LIMITED. Start: https://nossy.ai/