Move your team from Consensus to Perplexity.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Perplexity — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Consensus is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both tools answer a question by retrieving sources and writing a cited synthesis. To move a Consensus workflow into Perplexity, run the same question in Pro Search (quick multi-source synthesis) or Deep Research (long-running structured report), and set the focus filter to 'academic' so retrieval is biased toward scholarly sources rather than the open web. Consensus Deep Search (screens up to 1,000 papers, structured report on the ~50 most relevant) maps most closely to Perplexity Deep Research. Going the other way (Perplexity to Consensus), drop the web/news framing and re-run the question on consensus.app: you trade Perplexity's broad web coverage and model choice for retrieval that is restricted to ~220M peer-reviewed papers plus per-paper Study Snapshots and Ask Paper.
- Warning: Coverage differs at the source: Consensus searches only peer-reviewed scientific papers, while Perplexity (even with the academic focus filter) draws on the general web and may cite blogs, news, or preprints alongside journals - so a Perplexity answer is not a like-for-like substitute for a literature-grounded one.
- Warning: Perplexity has no Consensus Meter - it will not tell you how many studies agree vs. disagree on a yes/no question; that scientific-agreement read does not survive the move and must be reconstructed manually from Perplexity's citations.
- Warning: Quota models are unrelated: Consensus gates Deep Search / Pro Analysis volume per its own plans, while Perplexity caps Deep Research (roughly 20/month on Pro after the Feb-2026 cut); don't assume a heavy Consensus user will have equivalent headroom on a given Perplexity plan.