Mistral AIvsPerplexity

Mistral AI

• High hallucination rate approaching 50%(9/10)
• Responses are condensed and lack creativity(5/10)
• API occasionally produces gibberish output(5/10)

Perplexity

• Secretly downgrading models without user knowledge(8/10)
• Citations appear rigorous but often misleading(7/10)
• Fabricates claims and cites sources that don't support them(7/10)
• Model switch caused 'massive intellectual downgrade'(6/10)

Mistral AI

• Customer support is nearly impossible to reach(8/10)

Perplexity

• Customer support is essentially non-existent(8/10)

Mistral AI

• Unused credits vanish at month end(7/10)
• Open-source reputation masks proprietary reality(6/10)

Perplexity

• Surprise double billing and subscription nightmares(9/10)
• Pro limits cut 97% after promising unlimited(8/10)
• Non-refundable policy with unreasonably short window(6/10)
• Enterprise pricing extremely high(5/10)

Mistral AI

• Misleading feature promises after subscription(7/10)
• 128K context window too small for documents(6/10)
• Le Chat less customizable than ChatGPT(5/10)
• Vague sources reduce research credibility(6/10)

Perplexity

• Cannot find all sources, links to wrong pages(6/10)
• Spaces lack collaboration features(5/10)
• Not suitable for creative content generation(5/10)

Mistral AI

• Reasoning model gets stuck in infinite loops(8/10)
• Codestral struggles with multi-file coordination(6/10)

Perplexity

• Responses occasionally slow or generic(5/10)

Mistral AI

• Steep technical learning curve for deployment(6/10)

Perplexity

No signals

Mistral AI

• Limited ecosystem compared to OpenAI(5/10)

Perplexity

No signals

Mistral AI

• Vision models failed critical safety tests(10/10)

Perplexity

• Multiple copyright lawsuits from major publishers(8/10)
• Ignores robots.txt and scraping restrictions(6/10)