Kagi vs Defapi vs CometAPI vs Perplexity AI

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

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Kagi
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Competitor 1
DDefapi
Competitor 2
CometAPI
Competitor 3
Perplexity AI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Kagi
kagi.com
Kagi is a paid search engine with no ads and no tracking, funded entirely by subscribers rather than advertisers.
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor 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 Perplexity AI
perplexity.ai
Search that gives answers instead of links
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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2.4Kvisits/mo
302.3Kvisits/mo
95.2Mvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
▲ 9.9%
▼ 8.2%
6-month growth
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-86.2%
-16.5%
-42.9%
Global rank web
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#4,650,820
#157,147
#446
Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
295.7K
104.9M
Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
46%
33%
Pages / visit
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1.4
2.9
3.6
Visit duration
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7s
38s
4m 18s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 4%
KagiDefapiCometAPIPerplexity AI
047.3M94.5M141.8M189MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KPerplexity AI · 189MPerplexity AI · 179.6MPerplexity AI · 170.1MPerplexity AI · 153.8MPerplexity AI · 166.8MPerplexity AI · 154.9MPerplexity AI · 138.1MPerplexity AI · 115.8MPerplexity AI · 103.8MPerplexity AI · 95.2M1K10K100K1M10M100M1BDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KPerplexity AI · 189MPerplexity AI · 179.6MPerplexity AI · 170.1MPerplexity AI · 153.8MPerplexity AI · 166.8MPerplexity AI · 154.9MPerplexity AI · 138.1MPerplexity AI · 115.8MPerplexity AI · 103.8MPerplexity AI · 95.2MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$5per month
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$4per 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
Trial FreeStarter $5/moProfessional $10/moUltimate $25/mo
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
TextImagesAudio
TextImages
DocumentsImagesTextCode
Output
Text
TextImagesAudio
VideoTextImages
CodeText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningLifestyle & EntertainmentProductivity & Office+6 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningLifestyle & EntertainmentProductivity & Office+13 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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10
APIs
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Search engine
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AI search
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API integrations
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Chatbots
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Research
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Summarizing
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LLM gateway
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API management
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Developer tools
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Document summarization
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News
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Research papers
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Translations
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API security
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Browser
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Homework assistance
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Image generation
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Literature reviews
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Video generation
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Writing
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Community on aitoolstime
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Prompts
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.