Perplexity Sonar API vs OpenRouter vs Exa vs EUrouter

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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OpenRouter
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Exa
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EEUrouter
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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 OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor EEUrouter
eurouter.ai
EUrouter is a European AI gateway: one API gives access to more than 100 models and routes each request to the best option for price, quality or latency, while keeping every request inside the EU.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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22Mvisits/mo
930.8Kvisits/mo
21.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 14.6%
▲ 9.9%
▲ 45.7%
6-month growth
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+39.6%
+16.3%
+14,124.3%
Global rank web
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#2,023
#55,392
#1,032,204
Avg. last 3 months
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19.5M
844.7K
14K
Bounce rate lower is better
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32%
38%
37%
Pages / visit
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7.7
4.3
3.5
Visit duration
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6m 13s
3m 23s
35s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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Perplexity Sonar APIOpenRouterExaEUrouter
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KEUrouter · 152EUrouter · 3.8KEUrouter · 2.6KEUrouter · 5.5KEUrouter · 14.8KEUrouter · 21.6K1001K10K100K1M10M100MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KEUrouter · 152EUrouter · 3.8KEUrouter · 2.6KEUrouter · 5.5KEUrouter · 14.8KEUrouter · 21.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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€39per month · free tier available
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API access
Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreePlus €39/moPro €99/mo
Capabilities input → output
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Text
AudioVideoTextImages
Web pagesText
TextImagesAudio
Output
Text
VideoTextImagesAudio
TextData
TextCode
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
Development
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Website crawling
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Large language models
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Research
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Web scraping
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