I paid for Perplexity, Claude, and NotebookLM, and only one was worth keeping
The article discusses the author's experience with three AI tools: Perplexity, Claude, and NotebookLM. After trying all three, the author concluded that only one was worth keeping. The piece highlights the challenges of managing multiple AI subscriptions and the importance of selecting tools that truly add value.
- ▪The author subscribed to three AI tools: Perplexity, Claude, and NotebookLM.
- ▪Perplexity Pro offers features like unlimited searches and access to larger models, but the author found it redundant compared to existing free tools.
- ▪The article emphasizes the need to choose AI tools wisely due to their subscription costs.
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Record
| Original publisher | XDA Developers |
| Canonical URL | https://www.xda-developers.com/paid-for-perplexity-claude-notebooklm-only-one-worth-keeping/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 11:30:22 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T11:32:48.611Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T11:32:48.611Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | nfDtE8B0YRWl |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at XDA Developers.
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