Perplexity AI vs Cursor vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs Consensus

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

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Perplexity AI
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Cursor
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OpenAI Codex CLI
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Consensus
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Perplexity AI
perplexity.ai
Search that gives answers instead of links
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
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Competitor Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
95.2Mvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
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5.8Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 8.2%
▲ 7.8%
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▲ 3.5%
6-month growth
-42.9%
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+14.4%
Global rank web
#446
#15,584
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#9,859
Avg. last 3 months
104.9M
4.4M
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5.5M
Bounce rate lower is better
33%
57%
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43%
Pages / visit
3.6
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4.1
Visit duration
4m 18s
1m 36s
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3m 56s
Traffic sources
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 4%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
Perplexity AICursorOpenAI Codex CLIConsensus
047.3M94.5M141.8M189MPerplexity 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 · 95.2MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8M1M10M100M1BPerplexity 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 · 95.2MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
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$8.99per month · free tier available
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeDocumentsImagesText
CodeText
CodeImagesText
Text
Output
CodeText
Code
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Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
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Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningLifestyle & EntertainmentProductivity & Office+13 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
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Search engine
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AI search
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Code reviews
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Debugging
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Development
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Document summarization
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Medical research
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Research papers summaries
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Summarizing
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Developer tools
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Homework assistance
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Terminal
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Writing
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