perplexity.ai

Perplexity

Who runs Perplexity, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest AI search engine alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
ChatGPT

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Perplexity

Perplexity perplexity.ai

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

Wikidata: chatbot search engine

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Perplexity tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

8 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Privacy-friendly analytics

    Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Perplexity

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Perplexity, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than PerplexityNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    ChatGPT chatgpt.com Top 1K English No trackers

    ChatGPT: Chat, Work, Create & Code with AI

    Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.

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  2. 02
    Google google.com Top 100 German No trackers

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

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  3. 03
    Grok grok.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Grok

    Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

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  4. 04
    You.com you.com English 1 tracker

    You.com | Search and inference for AI

    The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.

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  5. 05
    Dola dola.com Top 10K No trackers

    Dola AI - Your everyday AI assistant

    Dola AI is your AI chat assistant for intelligent conversations, writing, translation and programming. Get answers, find inspiration, and discuss any topic with Dola AI.

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  6. 06
    Microsoft Bing bing.com Top 100 English No trackers

    Search - Microsoft Bing

    Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.

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  7. 07
    Meta AI meta.ai Top 10K

    chatbot feature of Meta Platforms products

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  8. 08
    claude.ai Top 1K English
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  9. 09
    Poe poe.com

    chatbot app developed by Quora

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  10. 10
    Kimi kimi.com English No trackers

    Kimi AI Official Site | K3.1 Pro Launches with Upgraded Coding & Agentic Capabilities

    Kimi K3.1 Pro is now live. Easily tackle complex coding projects, build 3D models, and conduct in-depth financial research. More powerful agentic capabilities help you complete more complex tasks efficiently.

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    Qwen qwen.ai Top 10K No trackers

    Qwen

    Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

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  12. 12
    Tavily tavily.com English 2 trackers

    Tavily

    Tavily is the real‑time search engine for AI agents — Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction.

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  13. 13
    Exa exa.ai English 1 tracker

    Exa | Search API for AI Agents — Real-Time Web Data

    Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free.

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  14. 14
    SpaceXAI x.ai Top 10K

    American artificial intelligence and social media division of SpaceX

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  15. 15
    Replika replika.com English 1 tracker

    Replika | The AI Friend to do Life With

    Meet Replika, the AI companion to do life with. Chat, reflect, grow, and build a meaningful connection with your AI friend.

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  16. 16
    DeepSeek deepseek.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DeepSeek | Into the Unknown

    DeepSeek is an AI research company focused on building world-leading general artificial intelligence. We develop and open-source frontier LLMs including DeepSeek-V4, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-Coder. Chat with DeepSeek AI or integrate via API.

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  17. 17
    Yandex yandex.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Yandex — fast Internet search

    Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.

    Compare Yandex with Perplexity →
  18. 18
    Typeform typeform.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Form Builder with AI Automation | Typeform

    Build AI-powered forms that get 3.5x more data — then trigger automated workflows to enrich leads, follow up, and grow revenue. No code. Start free.

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    Wolfram Alpha wolframalpha.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence

    Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music…

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  20. 20
    Character.ai character.ai Top 1K English

    American neural language model chatbot service

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Perplexity adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 16 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
40 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Perplexity’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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