Perplexity Sonar API vs Claude 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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Claude
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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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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950.2Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 2.0%
▼ 6.4%
6-month growth
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+54.8%
+1.9%
Global rank web
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#40
#60,843
Avg. last 3 months
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955.4M
794.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
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26%
42%
Pages / visit
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4.5
3.2
Visit duration
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6m 14s
1m 57s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 93% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
Perplexity Sonar APIClaudeTogether AI
0242.3M484.7M727M969.3MClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MTogether 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 · 785.1K100K1M10M100M1BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MTogether 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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Freemium
Paid
Starting price
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$20per month · free tier available
$1.99per month
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Free FreePro $20/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x $200/mo
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
Input
Text
CodeTextImagesDocuments
CodeTextImagesAudio
Output
Text
TextSlidesDocumentsDataCode
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningProductivity & Office+19 more
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Development
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Document summarization
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Essay writing
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Fine-Tuning
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GPU infrastructure
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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Large language models
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Models
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PDF analysis
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Paraphrasing
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Research
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Summarizing
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Translations
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Web search summaries
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Writing
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Copywriting
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Email writing
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