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Crowdwisdomtrading vs Perplexity
Self-directed retail traders who want a curated second opinion: aggregated setups from experienced traders with entry, stop and target levels spelled out, plus a free weekly outlook to sample before paying. You still place the trade at your own broker - it never touches your money. Not a fit for anyone who wants execution, managed funds, or regulatory-grade advice; its own terms tell you to verify outputs with licensed professionals. · Source-backed web research and quick market scans
| Decision point | CrowdWisdomTrading | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Self-directed retail traders who want a curated second opinion: aggregated setups from experienced traders with entry, stop and target levels spelled out, plus a free weekly outlook to sample before paying. You still place the trade at your own broker - it never touches your money. Not a fit for anyone who wants execution, managed funds, or regulatory-grade advice; its own terms tell you to verify outputs with licensed professionals. | Source-backed web research and quick market scans |
| Category | Research | Research |
| Price | Free: weekly outlook email plus 20 free setups after signup, no card. Pay-as-you-go: $9.99 for 10 setup credits, one-time, no subscription. Pro: $29.99/month (taxes included at checkout) via Whop checkout, cancel anytime; yearly billing $179.99/year (advertised as 'saves 50%' against $359.88). Verified 2026-11-02 on /pricing. | Free + paid plans |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.0/5 | 4.6/5 |
Scores are editorial product assessments of job fit, likely output quality, ease of adoption, and operational cost. They are not lab benchmarks, and no tool here has a published hands-on result. How we score.
Evidence status
Free: weekly outlook email + 20 free setups, no card. Pay as you go: $9.99 one-time for 10 setup credits. Pro $29.99/mo incl. taxes via Whop checkout, cancel anytime; yearly $179.99/yr ('saves 50%' vs $359.88 monthly-billed). Checked 2026-11-02 on https://www.crowdwisdomtrading.com/pricing.
Official sources checked 2026-11-02Submitted via form 2026-10-31 12:11 UTC by gilad@crowdwisdomtrading.com (Zoho MX, deliverable). Editorial entry written independently from live pages. Terms name the operator Tsuroni LTD, laws of the State of Israel, Tel Aviv-Yafo exclusive jurisdiction, ILS 400 liability-floor cap; privacy drafted to GDPR/CCPA categories; risk disclaimers throughout ('educational research', 'past performance does not guarantee future results'). No third-party trackers found on any fetched page. Domain registered 2014-02-11 (GoDaddy). '21,576+ pro traders' is a self-published vendor claim, unverifiable.
Official support lists Standard/Free, individual Pro, individual Max, Enterprise Pro, and Enterprise Max. Max includes everything in Pro plus the highest access to advanced models, Comet Max Assistant, Create files and apps, and Brain. The reviewed public consumer-plan pages did not expose current Pro or Max dollar prices. An official organization-onboarding article lists Enterprise Pro at $40/seat monthly or $400/seat annually.
Official sources checked 2026-10-01Open verification questions
- Current public prices for individual Pro and Max were not verifiable from the reviewed official pages.
- A blanket commercial-use or output-ownership claim was not made because consumer outputs may be governed by third-party model licenses.
- Enterprise Max pricing was not publicly stated in the reviewed sources.
- The official Lily blog says the chat-completions API streams tokens; the official lily README in pplx-garden as of 2026-09-02 documents stream: false and rejects streaming. Treat serving-surface details as demo-specific until re-checked.
- Lily hardware support is stated as Apple GPU family 10 or later (M5 and newer) and macOS 26 or later in the official demo README; support on every later Apple chip or OS was not independently verified.
Perplexity is documented as an AI-powered answer/search product with citations, premium models, file uploads, Research, Create files and apps, Comet, and Computer features depending on plan. AI Data Retention is enabled by default for Free, Pro, and Max users and can be turned off for future collection; previously collected training data is not removed by a later opt-out. Enterprise data is not used for AI training, and Perplexity says its third-party model-provider agreements prohibit provider training on Perplexity data. Consumer terms warn that output may be subject to third-party model licenses and use restrictions. 2026-09-02 official blog “Optimizing On-Device Inference for Apple Silicon” (https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/optimizing-on-device-inference-for-apple-silicon): Lily is a lightweight local inference engine built specifically for Apple silicon and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B so on-device compute does not bottleneck Hybrid Compute / Perplexity Computer tasks. Official facts from that post: Rust runtime; OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API; custom Metal kernels; neither PyTorch nor MLX in the execution path; standalone demo on GitHub. The official pplx-garden README names the demo at https://github.com/perplexityai/pplx-garden (lily/), Apache-2.0, greedy generation for the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B MLX affine 4-bit checkpoint format, Apple GPU family 10 or later (M5 and newer). Lily is not a new paid Perplexity plan SKU. Consumer Pro/Max dollar prices were not re-verified on 2026-09-02. Re-verified 2026-10-01: the official plan-comparison article still routes consumer Pro and Max to the app rather than publishing dollar amounts, and lists Education Pro at $10/mo with SheerID verification. Enterprise Pro is stated as starting at $40/month or $400/year per seat, matching the 2026-08-25 record.
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