Perplexity Sonar API vs Blackbox AI vs OsirisBrain vs Together AI

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

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Perplexity Sonar API
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Blackbox AI
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OsirisBrain
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Together AI
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Your tool 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 Blackbox AI
blackbox.ai
Blackbox AI is an inference platform built around privacy and speed.
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Competitor OsirisBrain
osirisbrain.com
OsirisBrain is a single frontier reasoning model sold through an OpenAI-compatible API.
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Competitor Together AI
together.ai
Open-source models without infrastructure
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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1.5Mvisits/mo
334visits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 7.7%
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▼ 6.4%
6-month growth
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-73.6%
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+1.9%
Global rank web
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#24,905
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#60,843
Avg. last 3 months
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1.8M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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41%
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Pages / visit
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Visit duration
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1m 59s
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1m 57s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 92% · ● Referral 6%
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● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
Perplexity Sonar APIBlackbox AIOsirisBrainTogether AI
02.3M4.7M7M9.3MBlackbox AI · 9.3MBlackbox AI · 6.9MBlackbox AI · 5.2MBlackbox AI · 5.5MBlackbox AI · 5.6MBlackbox AI · 5.1MBlackbox AI · 3.9MBlackbox AI · 2.4MBlackbox AI · 1.6MBlackbox AI · 1.5MOsirisBrain · 334Together AI · 566.8KTogether AI · 552.7KTogether AI · 645.8KTogether AI · 637.7KTogether AI · 770.2KTogether AI · 792.8KTogether AI · 756.1KTogether AI · 760.5KTogether AI · 838.4KTogether AI · 785.1K1001K10K100K1M10MBlackbox AI · 9.3MBlackbox AI · 6.9MBlackbox AI · 5.2MBlackbox AI · 5.5MBlackbox AI · 5.6MBlackbox AI · 5.1MBlackbox AI · 3.9MBlackbox AI · 2.4MBlackbox AI · 1.6MBlackbox AI · 1.5MOsirisBrain · 334Together AI · 566.8KTogether AI · 552.7KTogether AI · 645.8KTogether AI · 637.7KTogether AI · 770.2KTogether AI · 792.8KTogether AI · 756.1KTogether AI · 760.5KTogether AI · 838.4KTogether AI · 785.1KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Starting price
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Free tier
$5per month · free tier available
$1.99per month
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Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
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Starter $5Pro $20Enterprise Custom
Serverless Inference $0.30/usage-basedDedicated Inference GPU $3.99/usage-basedGPU Clusters $1.99/usage-basedFine-Tuning $0.34/usage-based
Capabilities input → output
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CodeText
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VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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