CometAPI vs Exa vs Perplexity Sonar API vs OpenRouter

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

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CometAPI
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Exa
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Perplexity Sonar API
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OpenRouter
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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Competitor Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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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 OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
302.3Kvisits/mo
930.8Kvisits/mo
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22Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▲ 9.9%
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▲ 14.6%
6-month growth
-16.5%
+16.3%
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+39.6%
Global rank web
#157,147
#55,392
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#2,023
Avg. last 3 months
295.7K
844.7K
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19.5M
Bounce rate lower is better
46%
38%
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32%
Pages / visit
2.9
4.3
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7.7
Visit duration
38s
3m 23s
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6m 13s
Traffic sources
● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
CometAPIExaPerplexity Sonar APIOpenRouter
05.5M11M16.5M22MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22M100K1M10M100MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
$4per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextImages
Web pagesText
Text
AudioVideoTextImages
Output
VideoTextImages
TextData
Text
VideoTextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
LLM gateway
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Development
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AI search
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Search engine
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Web search
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Website crawling
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Information retrieval
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Large language models
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Research
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Web scraping
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Web search summaries
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Agents
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Image generation
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LLM comparison
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Model routing
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Video generation
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