Why I Use Two AI Assistants at Once: My Experience with Perplexity Pro and Kimi Allegretto

Over the past few months, I’ve been deliberately paying for two AI services: Perplexity Pro and Kimi Allegretto. On the surface, that probably looks strange—even to me—but in practice they fill different roles. In this article, I want to share my personal experience: where Perplexity is genuinely stronger than a classic “chat with a model,” where Kimi turns out to be more useful, and what I end up criticizing in each of them. Why Pay for AI Assistants at All I regularly do more than just coding—