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	Figma AI A	Perplexity S	Devin A	Elicit S
Tagline	AI features baked into the design tool you already use.	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.	Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.	AI research assistant for academic literature.
Category	Design	Research	Agents	Research
Pricing	Included with Figma plans	Free + $20/mo Pro	$500/mo	Free + $12-$42/mo
Best for	Designers already on Figma.	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.	Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.	Grad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.
Strengths	First drafts with Make Designs Rename/rearrange layers automatically Natural language asset search	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context	Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs Handles multi-hour engineering work Reports back with what it did	Searches 125M+ papers Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers Systematic review workflow
Weaknesses	Features vary by plan + region Still rolling out	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics	Expensive Best for well-scoped tasks Not for solo hobbyists	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.	S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.	A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license.	S-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.
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