Stop defaulting to Perplexity. Synthesia handles the part you hate.

I opened both, asked the same dumb question, and watched.

People call Perplexity the safe pick. In practice the free tier rate-limits you fast Synthesia, by contrast, makes talking-head avatar videos with no camera.

What Perplexity does best: ships every answer with clickable citations is built to find the source, not write the essay

The catch on Perplexity: the free tier rate-limits you fast And Synthesia? per-minute pricing adds up

If I had to keep one, it's Perplexity — ships every answer with clickable citations. But Synthesia earns its spot the moment makes talking-head avatar videos with no camera. Neither is dead weight; they just aren't the same tool.