Perplexity Sonar API vs Consensus vs Together AI vs iGPT

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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Consensus
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Together AI
Competitor 3
iGPT
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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 Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor Together AI
together.ai
Open-source models without infrastructure
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Competitor iGPT
igpt.ai
You get $10 in credits to test iGPT—no credit card needed
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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5.8Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
6.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 3.5%
▼ 6.4%
▼ 10.7%
6-month growth
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+14.4%
+1.9%
-5.3%
Global rank web
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#9,859
#60,843
#2,806,800
Avg. last 3 months
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5.5M
794.7K
7.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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43%
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36%
Pages / visit
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4.1
3.2
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Visit duration
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3m 56s
1m 57s
24s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
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Perplexity Sonar APIConsensusTogether AIiGPT
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MTogether 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 · 785.1KiGPT · 2.2KiGPT · 6KiGPT · 5.1KiGPT · 6.8KiGPT · 6.3KiGPT · 8.7KiGPT · 7.7KiGPT · 7.2KiGPT · 6.5K1K10K100K1M10MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MTogether 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 · 785.1KiGPT · 2.2KiGPT · 6KiGPT · 5.1KiGPT · 6.8KiGPT · 6.3KiGPT · 8.7KiGPT · 7.7KiGPT · 7.2KiGPT · 6.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
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$8.99per month · free tier available
$1.99per month
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
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Serverless Inference $0.30/usage-basedDedicated Inference GPU $3.99/usage-basedGPU Clusters $1.99/usage-basedFine-Tuning $0.34/usage-based
Free FreePro $20/moTeam $30/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
Text
TextImagesCodeAudio
DocumentsText
Output
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Text
ImagesVideoTextCodeAudio
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Email extraction
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Search engine
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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Research papers summaries
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LLM development
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Model routing
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PDF analysis
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