Perplexity Sonar API vs Exa vs Defapi

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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Exa
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DDefapi
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Suggested competitors for Perplexity Sonar API: Brave Search API84% APIMart84% Blackbox AI84% FastRouter83% Together AI83% Voyage AI83% Nexos AI82% OpenRouter82%
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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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930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
6-month growth
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+16.3%
-86.2%
Global rank web
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#55,392
#4,650,820
Avg. last 3 months
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844.7K
4.8K
Bounce rate lower is better
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38%
36%
Pages / visit
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4.3
1.4
Visit duration
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3m 23s
7s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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Perplexity Sonar APIExaDefapi
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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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
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
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
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Output
Text
DataText
AudioImagesText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
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AI search
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API integrations
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Search engine
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Website crawling
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API management
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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Research
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Web scraping
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Web search summaries
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API security
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Developer tools
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