Perplexity AI vs ChatGPT vs Gemini vs You.com

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

Your tool
Perplexity AI
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Competitor 1
ChatGPT
Competitor 2
Gemini
Competitor 3
You.com
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Perplexity AI
perplexity.ai
Search that gives answers instead of links
Competitor ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
Your AI assistant for everything
Competitor Gemini
gemini.google.com
Google's most capable AI model
Competitor You.com
you.com
Search rebuilt for AI
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
95.2Mvisits/mo
5.6Bvisits/mo
2.6Bvisits/mo
971Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 8.2%
▲ 3.5%
▼ 2.6%
▼ 3.5%
6-month growth
-42.9%
-1.6%
+0.8%
-32.4%
Global rank web
#446
#7
#17
#56,627
Avg. last 3 months
104.9M
5.5B
2.7B
1M
Bounce rate lower is better
33%
30%
28%
47%
Pages / visit
3.6
4.3
4.1
2.7
Visit duration
4m 18s
6m 35s
7m 01s
1m 44s
Traffic sources
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 4%
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 3%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 4%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 4%
Perplexity AIChatGPTGeminiYou.com
01.5B2.9B4.4B5.8BPerplexity 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 · 95.2MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BGemini · 1.4BGemini · 1.7BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.6BGemini · 2.8BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.7BGemini · 2.6BYou.com · 1.8MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.6MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.3MYou.com · 1.1MYou.com · 1MYou.com · 971K100K1M10M100M1B10BPerplexity 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 · 95.2MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BGemini · 1.4BGemini · 1.7BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.6BGemini · 2.8BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.7BGemini · 2.6BYou.com · 1.8MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.6MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.3MYou.com · 1.1MYou.com · 1MYou.com · 971KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$8per month · free tier available
$4.99per month · free tier available
$1per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Free FreeGo $8/moPlus $20/moPro 5x $100/mo+1 more
Free FreeGoogle AI Plus $4.99/moGoogle AI Pro $19.99/moGoogle AI Ultra 5x $99.99/mo+1 more
Free FreeWeb Search API $5Contents API $1Answer API $5+2 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextImagesDocumentsCode
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
TextImagesDocumentsCodeAudio
Web pagesText
Output
TextCode
TextImagesCodeAudio
AudioVideoTextImagesCode
TextData
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
10
19
15
6
Search engine
Research
Chatbots
Summarizing
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Writing
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AI search
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Image generation
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Coding
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Email writing
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Translations
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Image to image
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Image editing
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Blogging
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Copywriting
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Document summarization
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Essay writing
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Grammar checking
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Image to text
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Large language models
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PDF analysis
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Research papers
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Video generation
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Video summaries
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Chatbot integration
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Code documentation
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Debugging
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Homework assistance
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Literature reviews
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Refactoring
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Web scraping
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Rating
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Upvotes
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
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Verified listing
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