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.
- 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
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
Very close - 03
You.com | Search and inference for AI
The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.
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 Very close
- 06
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 - 07
Tavily
Tavily is the real‑time search engine for AI agents — Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction.
Very close - 08
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.
Very close - 09
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.
Very close - 10
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 - 11
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.
Very close - 12
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.
Very close - 13
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 - 14
American neural language model chatbot service
Very close - 15
Ahrefs—AI Marketing Platform Powered by Big Data
We help marketers drive visibility across AI search, SEO, content, and social – with the largest AI and search databases online.
Very close - 16
about.me | your personal homepage
Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.
Very close - 17
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 - 18
DeepL AI Platform: Translation, Voice & API
Explore our AI suite and get more done: Translate speech, text, and media, or integrate the DeepL API.
Very close - 19
Tavus: The Human Computing Company
Personified Application Layers that see, hear, and respond face-to-face in real time. Build and deploy with our API, no-code PAL Maker, or enterprise Solutions. Interactive AI avatars and conversational video reimagined
Very close - 20
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
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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 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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- Payments
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- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fcdf2874b4c8-HAM
- 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