AIMLAPI vs OpenRouter vs WaveSpeedAI vs Perplexity Sonar API

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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AIMLAPI
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OpenRouter
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WaveSpeedAI
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Perplexity Sonar API
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool AIMLAPI
aimlapi.com
AIMLAPI is an AI model gateway that exposes more than 1000 models through one API.
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Competitor OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor WaveSpeedAI
wavespeed.ai
WaveSpeedAI is a media generation platform that puts more than 1,000 image, video, audio, 3D and language models behind one API key.
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Competitor Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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22Mvisits/mo
1.9Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 14.6%
▼ 3.0%
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6-month growth
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+39.6%
-8.5%
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Global rank web
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#2,023
#25,205
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Avg. last 3 months
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19.5M
1.9M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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32%
38%
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Pages / visit
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7.7
5.3
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Visit duration
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6m 13s
5m 10s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
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AIMLAPIOpenRouterWaveSpeedAIPerplexity Sonar API
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MWaveSpeedAI · 894.5KWaveSpeedAI · 1.4MWaveSpeedAI · 1.7MWaveSpeedAI · 1.8MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9M100K1M10M100MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MWaveSpeedAI · 894.5KWaveSpeedAI · 1.4MWaveSpeedAI · 1.7MWaveSpeedAI · 1.8MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2.2MWaveSpeedAI · 2MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9MWaveSpeedAI · 1.9MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Plans
Pay-as-you-go (per 1M tokens) Custom
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePay-as-you-go $0.00/usage-based
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextImagesAudio
AudioVideoTextImages
VideoTextImages
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Output
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
VideoTextImagesAudio
ImagesVideoTextAudio3D
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeImage GenerationVideo CreationAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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9
APIs
LLM gateway
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Image generation
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Model routing
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