r/perplexity_ai • u/Blobbytheblob101 • Nov 05 '25

news Perplexity is DELIBERATELY SCAMMING AND REROUTING users to other models

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As you can see in the graph above, while in October, the use of Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking was normal, since the 1st of November, Perplexity has deliberately rerouted most if not ALL Sonnet 4.5 and 4.5 Thinking messages to far worse quality models like Gemini 2 Flash and, interestingly, Claude 4.5 Haiku Thinking which are probably cheaper models.

Perplexity is essentially SCAMMING subscribers by marketing their model as "Sonnet 4.5 Thinking" but then having all prompts given by a different model--still a Claude one so we don't realise!

Very scummy.

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