LlamaIndex vs Perplexity: Which Is Better in 2026
Last month, I spent three hours building a RAG pipeline for a client's internal documentation portal. Two hours of that was debugging why my PDF parser kept choking on their scanned contracts. Meanwhile, my colleague just typed the same questions into Perplexity and got answers in seconds—cited and everything.
That's the fundamental tension between these two tools: one is a framework you build with, the other is a product you use. Comparing L