Perplexity Sonar API vs Defapi 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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DDefapi
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FastRouter
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Perplexity Sonar API: Vercel AI Gateway84% Brave Search API84% EEUrouter83% Voyage AI83% Azure AI Foundry83% Blackbox AI82% OsirisBrain82% APIMart81%
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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 DDefapi
defapi.org
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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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2.4Kvisits/mo
15.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
▼ 62.7%
6-month growth
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-86.2%
+4.7%
Global rank web
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#4,650,820
#1,733,591
Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
23.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
45%
Pages / visit
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1.4
1.5
Visit duration
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7s
15s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 95% · ● Referral 5%
Perplexity Sonar APIDefapiFastRouter
010.4K20.8K31.2K41.6KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5K1K10K100KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Paid
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Starting price
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$199per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Starter FreePro $199/moBusiness $799/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
AudioImagesText
AudioImagesText
Output
Text
AudioImagesText
AudioImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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6
APIs
LLM gateway
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API integrations
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Model routing
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API management
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Web search
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Information retrieval
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Agents
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