Perplexity Sonar API vs BrowserAct vs Context.dev vs FastRouter

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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BrowserAct
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Context.dev
Competitor 3
FastRouter
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
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 BrowserAct
browseract.com
BrowserAct is a no-code web scraping platform that builds a reusable scraper from one prompt.
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Competitor Context.dev
context.dev
Brand.dev is a web scraping API for AI agents and LLM products.
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Competitor FastRouter
fastrouter.ai
This LLM gateway lets teams tap into over 100 AI models through one API endpoint
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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163.5Kvisits/mo
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15.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 12.3%
▲ 26.4%
▼ 62.7%
6-month growth
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-5.0%
-68.4%
+4.7%
Global rank web
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#275,930
#3,017,624
#1,733,591
Avg. last 3 months
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147.7K
4.7K
23.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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42%
0%
45%
Pages / visit
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2.5
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1.5
Visit duration
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1m 07s
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15s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 76% · ● Referral 23%
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● Direct 95% · ● Referral 5%
Perplexity Sonar APIBrowserActContext.devFastRouter
043K86.1K129.1K172.1KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5K1K10K100K1MBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
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$16per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
$199per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Free FreeBasic $16/moEssential $70/moAdvanced $120/mo
Plan $19.0 $19/moPlan $99.0 $99/moPlan $299.0 $299/moPlan $499.0 $499/mo+1 more
Starter FreePro $199/moBusiness $799/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
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Text
TextWeb pages
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AudioImagesText
Output
Text
Data
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AudioImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeResearch & AnalyticsAI APIAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
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Web scraping
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LLM gateway
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Model routing
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Website crawling
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Web search
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Webscraping
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Information retrieval
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No-code
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Web search summaries
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API integrations
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API management
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Development
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Price search
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Research
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Text extraction
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Website to JSON
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