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	Figma AI A	Devin A	Perplexity S	Elicit S
Tagline	AI features baked into the design tool you already use.	Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.	AI research assistant for academic literature.
Category	Design	Agents	Research	Research
Pricing	Included with Figma plans	$500/mo	Free + $20/mo Pro	Free + $12-$42/mo
Best for	Designers already on Figma.	Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.	Grad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.
Strengths	First drafts with Make Designs Rename/rearrange layers automatically Natural language asset search	Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs Handles multi-hour engineering work Reports back with what it did	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context	Searches 125M+ papers Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers Systematic review workflow
Weaknesses	Features vary by plan + region Still rolling out	Expensive Best for well-scoped tasks Not for solo hobbyists	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics	Academic-only Can hallucinate citations — verify everything
Kai's verdict	A-tier. No reason not to use it if you're on Figma. Not worth switching for.	A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license.	S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.	S-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.
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