Perplexity is excellent at answering questions with live web sources. But it's a research tool — it doesn't make images, video, or voice, and it doesn't touch your apps. If you want the research plus the doing, that's where a Perplexity alternative comes in.
Terminal X includes real-time web research (it routes to Perplexity's Sonar and its own research agent for cited, multi-step answers) — and then keeps going: the same prompt can turn the research into a document, an image, a voiceover, or a post in your Notion or Slack.
Where Perplexity answers in text, Terminal X routes across 35+ models spanning text, image, audio, video and 3D, plus 30+ app connectors — so 'research the top three competitors and draft a one-pager with a header image' is a single prompt.
| Perplexity | Terminal X | |
|---|---|---|
| Live web research | Yes | Yes (Sonar + research agent) |
| Images / video / voice | No | Yes |
| Acts on your apps | No | 30+ connectors |
| Multi-model per prompt | No | Yes, routed + fused |
Yes — it routes research to Perplexity's Sonar and its own cited research agent, and then can turn the results into images, docs, or posts in your apps.
Or skip the comparison shopping: Terminal X routes one prompt to the right model automatically — and runs several in parallel when a job needs more than one.