ChatGPT vs Perplexity Sonar API vs Claude vs Cursor

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

Your tool
ChatGPT
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Competitor 1
Perplexity Sonar API
Competitor 2
Claude
Competitor 3
Cursor
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
Your AI assistant for everything
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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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Competitor Claude
claude.ai
AI assistant built to be helpful, harmless, and honest
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
5.6Bvisits/mo
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950.2Mvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.5%
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▼ 2.0%
▲ 7.8%
6-month growth
-1.6%
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+54.8%
-1.8%
Global rank web
#7
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#40
#15,584
Avg. last 3 months
5.5B
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955.4M
4.4M
Bounce rate lower is better
30%
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26%
57%
Pages / visit
4.3
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4.5
2.4
Visit duration
6m 35s
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6m 14s
1m 36s
Traffic sources
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 3%
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● Direct 93% · ● Referral 5%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
ChatGPTPerplexity Sonar APIClaudeCursor
01.5B2.9B4.4B5.8BChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M1M10M100M1B10BChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$8per month · free tier available
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$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreeGo $8/moPlus $20/moPro 5x $100/mo+1 more
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Free FreePro $20/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x $200/mo
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
Text
ImagesTextDocumentsCode
TextCode
Output
TextImagesCodeAudio
Text
TextSlidesDocumentsDataCode
Code
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Development & CodeAI API
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningProductivity & Office+19 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
19
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26
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Coding
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Debugging
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Refactoring
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Code documentation
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Chatbots
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APIs
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Code reviews
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Essay writing
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Research
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Summarizing
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Translations
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Writing
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Agents
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Blogging
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Copywriting
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Development
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Email writing
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Grammar checking
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Web search
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Document summarization
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Image generation
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Image to text
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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Large language models
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PDF analysis
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Paraphrasing
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Search engine
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Terminal
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Web search summaries
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Rating
★ 4.34 ratings
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Upvotes
▲ 17
▲ 0
▲ 50
▲ 1
Saves
4
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7
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Reviews
4
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10
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Prompts
17
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19
3
Verified listing
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