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.
4 of the 60 sites closest to Perplexity match.
- 01
Bolt AI builder: Websites, apps & prototypes
Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
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.
Very close - 04
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.
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
- 9,209
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 50 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
Built with
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT hubspot-developer-verification=YjMzZTc5ZDktNmMyYi00YTQ4LWIyYjEtM2IxMG…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=821710750b8dc95b687842d6603d34e3a11d38b8eb098663f…
- CDN
- 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
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=OAZoywII4QbDlh4PIPpr34Zbe0MZMsEc4XTCWMCJftU
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=5Dz8REUMU45X6GGssEa56YmEwFOVaZV7cNgWCWke1Io
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-zghu2IboDSNgZtbkqFK3Rxb0
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=yVf6nREGJnj6LBCkLLADFdZbC32dWQ4Nnlpnptqw
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_TOGuaujNzVuFZdiK9EyxQ4
Sitemaps
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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