LearningFlow LearningFlow vs Perplexity
Perplexity answers from the live web and puts a source under every claim, and it is very good at that. The difference is structural: Perplexity is bought one seat at a time, and a Project belongs to the person who made it until they invite someone or share it with the organisation, while LearningFlow bills a shared credit wallet and the organisation keeps the work.
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Choose Perplexity if
Pick Perplexity when the job is finding out what is true and showing where it came from.
- A doctoral supervisor checking twelve sources the night before a literature review meeting.
- A policy officer who needs every line of a governors' paper to carry a link.
- A lecturer reading a 90-page inspection report and arguing back with it for an hour.
Choose LearningFlow if
Pick LearningFlow when the thing you make has to leave your account and land on a class.
- A science lead who wants 30 lesson plans, a rubric and a narrated recap video in one afternoon.
- A college that needs completion records landing in its own learning record store.
- An admin who must cut one app off from the student table on Friday, leaving the other three running.
Where the two are built differently.
The account holds the work.
Someone has to ask her to hand it over, or it goes with her.
The work was made on a personal login, so recovering it is a favour rather than a setting. Schools discover this in August, when the person who built the scheme of work no longer answers email.
The organisation holds the work.
Ms Okafor's key is revoked. The work has not moved.
People hold keys, not possessions. Removing someone removes their key. Whoever teaches 6C next September opens the same library and the same base, on their first morning, without asking anyone for a copy.
What each one does.
Written from each product's own documentation. Where something is true only on a higher tier, the row says so.
| Perplexity | LearningFlow | |
|---|---|---|
| Buying without seats | Every user needs a paid seat. Enterprise Pro is $40 a seat each month, or $400 a seat for the year, and Enterprise Max is $325 a seat each month. | You buy credits, not seats. No subscription is required, and personal, organisation and enterprise wallets stay separate. |
| Cited answers from the live web | Every answer carries its sources, with Research mode for long multi-source reports and Model Council on Max for cross-checking several models. | Web search and crawl are tools a published app can call, not a citation-first answer engine. |
| Choosing the model | Free accounts cannot pick a model at all, paid plans get a selector, and Model Council is Max and Enterprise Max only. | Nothing gates the model list on a plan, a seat or a free tier, and the only gate is a per-organisation admin override. |
| Files you can hand out | DOCX, PDF, XLSX, PPTX and HTML apps, with version history and Google Drive export, metered at 50 creations a month on Enterprise Pro. | A sandboxed Linux machine with Python, LibreOffice and Pandoc returns .pptx, .xlsx with working formulas, .docx, .mp4, .mp3 and .png. |
| Permissions for a group | Permissions go to individual members or to groups, including SCIM-synced ones, though custom roles, group management and group sync are on sales-assisted Enterprise plans only. | Seven capabilities are switched per member: org-library, chat, flow-creator, assignment-creator, solution-designer, base and work-with-ai. A role grants the key, then the member opts in, one member at a time. |
| Driving it from your own code | The API is a separate pay-as-you-go product, excluded from Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max, and admins cannot buy or manage API credits for staff. | POST /task/:taskId with an x-api-key, optional SSE streaming, per-key credit top-up and usage reporting. |
| Records in your own LRS | The documented connectors are workplace systems such as Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Snowflake and Salesforce, with no learning record store among them. | xAPI package ingest, a self-hosted SQL LRS, or point it at the organisation's own LRS. |
| Apps with their own sign-in | The Computer agent builds HTML apps you can preview, share and roll back through version history. | One solution can hold several apps, a client, a webhook and a scheduler, sharing one database, each with its own scoped and revocable contract. |
It reaches the person who made it.
The making and the giving-out are different products. Whether thirty students actually opened it is a question answered somewhere else, or not at all.
It reaches the class, and comes back.
Students are a user type, not an afterthought — they sign in, they get the same tools their teacher chose to allow, and what they do is visible to the teacher without a second product in between.
What comes with it here.
A narrated whiteboard video
One sentence becomes a narrated MP4 in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, with subtitles off, as a sidecar .srt file, or burned in.
59 tools already built
The public gallery holds lesson plans, marking rubrics, quizzes, worksheets, report comments, text levelling and YouTube question sets, ready to run today.
Apps that hold no secrets
A published app calls Gmail, Resend, WhatsApp, document parse, speech to text and pronunciation assessment with the credentials injected server-side.
Sub-organisations you can bill
A training company runs client sites under one enterprise account, with wholesale credit pools, per-currency rates and volume tiers, billed through Stripe or senangPay.
Where Perplexity is the better choice
If the institution-wide job is research, buy Perplexity, and it is not close. A university that wants every student and lecturer on one answer engine where each claim carries a link, with Research mode for long multi-source reports and Model Council on Max running several frontier models over the same question, will not find that here. The same holds for the ordinary work of reading a long document and arguing back about it for an hour. Many teachers should keep a frontier chat assistant open whatever else the school buys.
The whole stack against Perplexity.
The table above compares the two at the job they share. This one runs every capability past both, because what a school is choosing between is usually a tool that does one job and a workspace that does many. Hover any mark to see what it means, and a partial one to see exactly what is limited.
| LearningFlow | Perplexity | |
|---|---|---|
| Ask and read | ||
| Chat with AI | ||
| Research the web and write it up | ||
| Read text off an image or a scan | ||
| Agent browses the live web | ||
| Make | ||
| PowerPoint deck | ||
| Spreadsheet with working formulas | ||
| Word document | ||
| Image generation | ||
| Video generation | ||
| Narrated whiteboard video, corrected scene by scene | ||
| Voice-over | ||
| Song generation | ||
| Interactive web page | ||
| Edit what it made, online | ||
| Slide and design templates | ||
| Presenter on camera, from a photo you supply | ||
| Teach | ||
| Ready-made teacher tools | ||
| Build your own tool, no code | ||
| Lesson that branches on the answer | ||
| Hears them read aloud, checks pronunciation | ||
| Assign to a class with a join code | ||
| Assignments and submissions | ||
| Student accounts | ||
| LTI link from your LMS | ||
| Learning records to your own LRS | ||
| SCORM 1.2 package out | ||
| Build | ||
| Working app | ||
| Full working platform templates | ||
| Several apps over one database, rights each | ||
| App sends email or WhatsApp | ||
| App runs on a schedule | ||
| App accepts webhooks | ||
| Generate real-time apps | ||
| Generate AI-driven apps | ||
| Shared database | ||
| Revoke one app's access, not the others | ||
| Run | ||
| Run any tool from your own software | ||
| Choose the AI model, on every plan | ||
| Switch a feature off per group | ||
| Organisation keeps the work when staff leave | ||
| We do not do this | ||
| Transcribe a video or audio file | ||
| Custom domain for a published app | ||
Before they decide.
Can we keep Perplexity and run LearningFlow alongside it?
Yes, and most schools should. Perplexity is billed per seat for the people doing research, while LearningFlow is billed from a credit wallet, so staff who run a flow twice a term cost very little. There is no import between the two. A Perplexity session is a page in that account, not a file, so export anything you want to keep as a DOCX, XLSX or PPTX before the seat goes.
A teacher leaves in July. What happens to what they built?
In Perplexity, sessions and Projects are private by default and reached only by invitation, an org-wide share or an approved join request. Seat transfer is documented as removing the old email and adding the new one, with no content handover step. In LearningFlow the orgId is stamped when the object is created and never moves between organisations. Removing the member deletes their membership row, not the work, and an admin can list org-library tools whose owner has left and reassign them.
Do our students get accounts of their own?
Not as a separate user type. Everyone in a Perplexity Enterprise organisation is a member, and a student gets their own account by verifying through SheerID, which unlocks the cheaper Education Pro plan and Learn Mode with its flashcards and quizzes. In LearningFlow students are a first-class user type with their own accounts, join codes and assignments.
What does a year actually cost?
Perplexity Enterprise Pro is $40 a seat each month or $400 a year, Enterprise Max is $325 a seat each month, and the two can be mixed in one organisation. Budget two things on top: agent credits, 500 a month per Enterprise Pro seat, expiring monthly with no rollover, and API credits, which no subscription includes. LearningFlow has no seat, and the school wallet is separate from the free monthly grant a teacher holds personally.
Will it work with our Moodle and our record store?
You can launch from Moodle over LTI 1.3, bring in xAPI packages, and record activity in the self-hosted SQL LRS or send it to the LRS you already run. A video from Whiteboard Studio also exports as a SCORM 1.2 zip with the player inside it, so it runs on Moodle with no internet and reports completion once the learner has played enough of it. Only the video packages, not a deck or a quiz, and only 1.2 — Articulate and iSpring publish 1.2, 2004, AICC and cmi5 from one dialog. Perplexity's documented connectors are workplace systems, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Snowflake and Salesforce, with no LMS or record store among them.
Where this came from. Read on 13 September 2026. Perplexity changes its product and its prices without telling us, so check anything that decides a purchase.
- Which Perplexity Subscription Plan is right for you? — Perplexity Help Center ↗
- Enterprise Pricing and Billing: Frequently Asked Questions — Perplexity Help Center ↗
- Enterprise roles and permissions — Perplexity Help Center ↗
- User Management for Enterprise organizations — Perplexity Help Center ↗
- Creating assets with Perplexity: Overview — Perplexity Help Center ↗
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