Comparison

CuraSim vs Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the web and returns summarised answers with cited sources.

Reviewed 5 October 2026 from Perplexity AI’s public pages · General AI assistants

The short answer

Perplexity cites web pages; CuraSim cites the rubric and the book.

  • The right kind of citation. In homeopathy the evidence for a remedy is a rubric in a repertory and a passage in the Materia Medica. CuraSim points to those; a web search points to whatever ranks.
  • Grading the way the books printed it. Kent’s three type-faces, Boenninghausen’s and Boger’s five, Boericke’s two — CuraSim keeps each book’s own grades, so a remedy’s strength in a rubric means what the author meant.
  • You stay the prescriber. Every proposed rubric can be marked more important or removed, and you can add your own from the repertory; the shortlist re-ranks in front of you by plain arithmetic, not AI. Nothing is hidden in a prompt.
  • The case stays with the patient. Rubrics, the repertorization grid, prescriptions and follow-ups live on the patient’s record — not scattered across chat threads you have to copy back out.

What Perplexity is

Perplexity runs a web search for each question and writes an answer with clickable sources, with deeper research modes on paid plans. It has no repertory or materia medica of its own, so for a homeopathic question its answer depends on whatever happens to be published on the web.

Where Perplexity is genuinely strong

  • Every answer lists its sources.
  • Quick for literature and web lookups.
  • A free tier.

Side by side

RepertoriesCuraSimThirteen classical repertories — Kent, Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book, Boger’s BBCR and Synoptic Key, Knerr, Lippe, Clarke, Boericke, Hempel, Roberts, Minton, Boericke-Dewey and Carey — each rebuilt from its own source and graded as printed — plus a Nosodes repertory derived by CuraSim from H.C. Allen, and merged Cross and Universal views. Partial books say so on their own labels.PerplexityNone.
AI case analysisCuraSimDescribe the case in your own words (typed or dictated); CuraSim proposes real rubrics from Kent’s repertory, weights Mind and Generals, and ranks remedies by plain arithmetic with a confidence band — every remedy traced to the rubrics that put it there and linked to its Materia Medica, every rubric yours to add, remove or mark more important. No potency, miasm or diagnosis.PerplexityWeb-search answers with citations to web pages.
Materia Medica & libraryCuraSimMateria Medica from 16 authors in 28 editions, three editions of the Organon (1st, 4th, 5th), Kent’s lectures and a classical library reader, cross-linked from the repertory.PerplexityNone built in.
Patients & clinicCuraSimPatient records, appointments with email reminders, prescriptions, GST bills, medical certificates, and staff with granular permissions and an audit log — in the same workspace as the repertory.PerplexityNone.
Veterinary & agroCuraSimA veterinary module (beta) with its own merged repertory and repertorization grid; agro homeopathy (beta) is an AI mentor only — there is no agro repertory data.PerplexityNone.
Lab reports & investigationsCuraSimUpload images of lab reports and scans (PNG, JPG or WebP — not PDF files); CuraSim gives a structured read with a plain-language explanation for you to verify — decision support, never a diagnosis.PerplexityNot stated by the vendor
LanguagesCuraSimInterface in 19 — ten Indian (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu) and nine international; rubric and remedy names stay in the books’ English.PerplexityMany.
Where it runsCuraSimIn the browser on a laptop, tablet or phone — nothing to install, and it can be added to a phone’s home screen.PerplexityWeb, desktop, iOS, Android.
PriceCuraSimStudent plan free forever; a paid Practitioner plan and a Clinic plan on enquiry — see current pricing.PerplexityFree tier and paid plans — see perplexity.ai.

Pricing, plans and features change — confirm Perplexity’s current terms on its own website.

Why practitioners choose CuraSim

  1. 1

    The right kind of citation

    In homeopathy the evidence for a remedy is a rubric in a repertory and a passage in the Materia Medica. CuraSim points to those; a web search points to whatever ranks.

  2. 2

    Grading the way the books printed it

    Kent’s three type-faces, Boenninghausen’s and Boger’s five, Boericke’s two — CuraSim keeps each book’s own grades, so a remedy’s strength in a rubric means what the author meant.

  3. 3

    You stay the prescriber

    Every proposed rubric can be marked more important or removed, and you can add your own from the repertory; the shortlist re-ranks in front of you by plain arithmetic, not AI. Nothing is hidden in a prompt.

  4. 4

    The case stays with the patient

    Rubrics, the repertorization grid, prescriptions and follow-ups live on the patient’s record — not scattered across chat threads you have to copy back out.

When Perplexity may suit you better

For a quick look at current research or news, Perplexity is fast and cited. For the case itself, use the repertory.

The fairest test is your own: run the same two or three completed, de-identified cases through both, and compare the rubrics each one finds, how clearly it shows its reasoning, and how much you had to correct. CuraSim’s Student plan is free, so that test costs nothing on our side.

Try the comparison on your own cases

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CuraSim is clinical decision support for qualified practitioners. No software replaces clinical assessment, referral, or the prescriber’s responsibility for the remedy, potency and follow-up. Product names belong to their owners and are used here only to identify them.

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