Exa vs Text-Generator vs AI Writer vs Perplexity Sonar API

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

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Exa
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Text-Generator
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AI Writer
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Perplexity Sonar API
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor Text-Generator
text-generator.io
Text-Generator gives you 100 free requests monthly to start
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Competitor AI Writer
ai-writer.com
Long-form content that passes as human-written
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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
930.8Kvisits/mo
1.3Kvisits/mo
24.7Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 10.3%
▲ 8.4%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
+27.3%
+46.5%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#12,444,825
#1,194,734
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
1.2K
22.7K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
39%
42%
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Pages / visit
4.3
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Visit duration
3m 23s
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11s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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ExaText-GeneratorAI WriterPerplexity Sonar API
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KText-Generator · 986Text-Generator · 2.6KText-Generator · 995Text-Generator · 849Text-Generator · 1.4KText-Generator · 1.3KAI Writer · 17.4KAI Writer · 25.1KAI Writer · 26KAI Writer · 18.9KAI Writer · 16.9KAI Writer · 16.3KAI Writer · 18.4KAI Writer · 20.6KAI Writer · 22.8KAI Writer · 24.7K1001K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KText-Generator · 986Text-Generator · 2.6KText-Generator · 995Text-Generator · 849Text-Generator · 1.4KText-Generator · 1.3KAI Writer · 17.4KAI Writer · 25.1KAI Writer · 26KAI Writer · 18.9KAI Writer · 16.9KAI Writer · 16.3KAI Writer · 18.4KAI Writer · 20.6KAI Writer · 22.8KAI Writer · 24.7KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Starting price
Free tier
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Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
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Ready $29/moFor $49/moFor Ph $375/mo
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioCodeImagesText
Text
Text
Output
DataText
AudioCodeText
Text
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Blog GeneratorAI Research Papers+1 more
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
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Development
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AI search
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Academic research
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Research papers
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Scientific literature exploration
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Search engine
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Web search
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Website crawling
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Citations
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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Literature reviews
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OCR
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Research papers drafting
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Scientific research
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Scientific writing
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Web scraping
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Web search summaries
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Writing
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Academic writing
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Agents
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Citation verification
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Image analysis
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Model routing
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Text to speech
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Transcription
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