I don't know whether I can give you a conclusive answer, due to how query-dependent the results are and the lack of determinism.

I really like perplexity and if you get it free it's hard to justify spending 100$/month.

I understand, I thought maybe there was a couple of cases you stumbled upon that Opus 4.1 was better at, which made you rank it higher than Perplexity!

Yes this happened.

Few recent examples:

- find me public companies listed in Poland that have the best z-index of dividend yield, payout ratio and earnings growth

- list the most important psychological tendencies and biases that crew resource management tries to address