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
Measured from Perplexity’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Perplexity01 · 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.
17 of the 60 sites closest to Perplexity match.
- 01
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.
Very close - 02
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close - 03
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.
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
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.
Very close - 06
Qwen
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
Very close - 07
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.
Very close - 08
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…
Very close - 09
Interactive presentation & audience engagement tool - Mentimeter
Engage your audience with live polls, quizzes, and Q&A. Create interactive presentations in minutes. Perfect for meetings, classes, and events.
Very close - 10
AI Creativity Community for Art, Video, Chat & Tools | SeaArt AI
SeaArt AI is an all-in-one AI creativity community for art, videos, audio, and AI chats, where creators collaborate, spark inspiration, and grow together.
Very close - 11
Ideogram | AI apps and models in one platform
Use purpose-built AI apps, access major image and video models through one API, and build on Ideogram 4.0, our open model.
Very close - 12
DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Close - 13
Qwant - The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product
Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.
Very close - 14
SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
Very close - 15
Suno | AI Music Generator
Create stunning original music for free in seconds using our AI generator. Make your own masterpieces, share with friends, and discover music from artists worldwide.
Very close - 16
豆包 - 字节跳动旗下 AI 智能助手
Seedance 2.0 视频生成模型现已全面接入豆包,现在登录即可免费使用!豆包 是你的 AI 聊天智能对话问答助手,写作文案翻译编程工具。豆包为你答疑解惑,提供灵感,辅助创作,也可以和你畅聊任何你感兴趣的话题
Very close - 17
夸克_AI旗舰应用官网
夸克pc/app为你带来极速、智能、安全、高效的搜索体验,找答案,找资料,找工具,办公,学习,工作必备应用。夸克提供浏览器搜索引擎、网盘、AI扫描王工具及小说阅读等高效功能,为你提供稳定,安全,流畅的浏览环境和优质的产品服务体验
Very close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- 35 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.
similarity × popularity
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- Marketing automation
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- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms75545187
- Email delivery
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS jessica.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=ZMuRv99LHvsS1KTp
- DocuSign TXT docusign=2dd8c5b2-34bc-4010-8dfc-31320fe8ecf3
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Next.js · not on perplexity.ai 7/20
- React · not on perplexity.ai 7/20
- HubSpot 5/20
- Notion 5/20
- Stripe 5/20
- Apple Business 4/20
- DocuSign 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on perplexity.ai 4/20
- OneTrust · not on perplexity.ai 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on perplexity.ai 4/20