Claude vs ChatGPT vs Perplexity Sonar API

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

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Claude
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Competitor 1
ChatGPT
Competitor 2
Perplexity Sonar API
Competitor 3
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Your tool Claude
claude.ai
AI assistant built to be helpful, harmless, and honest
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Competitor 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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
950.2Mvisits/mo
5.6Bvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 2.0%
▲ 3.5%
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6-month growth
+54.8%
-1.6%
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Global rank web
#40
#7
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Avg. last 3 months
955.4M
5.5B
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Bounce rate lower is better
26%
30%
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Pages / visit
4.5
4.3
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Visit duration
6m 14s
6m 35s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 3%
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ClaudeChatGPTPerplexity Sonar API
01.5B2.9B4.4B5.8BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6B100M1B10BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$8per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x $200/mo
Free FreeGo $8/moPlus $20/moPro 5x $100/mo+1 more
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsTextImagesCode
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
Text
Output
TextSlidesDocumentsDataCode
TextImagesCodeAudio
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningProductivity & Office+19 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
26
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Chatbots
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APIs
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Coding
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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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Debugging
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Email writing
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Grammar checking
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Code documentation
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Refactoring
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Web search
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Code reviews
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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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Developer tools
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Community on aitoolstime
Rating
★ 4.610 ratings
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Upvotes
▲ 50
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Saves
7
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Reviews
10
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Prompts
19
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