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.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
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

4 of the 60 sites closest to Perplexity match.

  1. 01
    Bolt bolt.new English Free plan 1 tracker

    Bolt AI builder: Websites, apps & prototypes

    Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.

    Compare Bolt with Perplexity →
  2. 02
    Notion notion.com Top 10K English Free plan 1 tracker

    The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion

    Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.

    Compare Notion with Perplexity →
  3. 03
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

    Compare Semrush with Perplexity →
  4. 04
    Visme visme.co English Free plan 2 trackers

    Visme: AI Presentation maker, Infographics, and One pager templates

    Create professional presentations, interactive infographics, beautiful design and engaging videos, all in one place. Start using Visme today.

    Compare Visme with Perplexity →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Perplexity’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Perplexity uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
32 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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Marketing automation
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Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=821710750b8dc95b687842d6603d34e3a11d38b8eb098663f…
CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:192.174.84.143 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org…
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 ip4:192.174.84.143 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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  • DocuSign TXT docusign=2dd8c5b2-34bc-4010-8dfc-31320fe8ecf3
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  • Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=5Dz8REUMU45X6GGssEa56YmEwFOVaZV7cNgWCWke1Io
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-zghu2IboDSNgZtbkqFK3Rxb0
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