Perplexity Sonar API vs OpenRouter vs Novita 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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OpenRouter
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Novita AI
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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 OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor Novita AI
novita.ai
Novita AI is a developer cloud that puts more than 200 models behind a single API, covering text, image, audio and video.
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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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22Mvisits/mo
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6.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 14.6%
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▼ 10.7%
6-month growth
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+39.6%
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-5.3%
Global rank web
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#2,023
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#2,806,800
Avg. last 3 months
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19.5M
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7.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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32%
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36%
Pages / visit
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7.7
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1.9
Visit duration
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6m 13s
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24s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
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Perplexity Sonar APIOpenRouterNovita AIiGPT
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MiGPT · 2.2KiGPT · 6KiGPT · 5.1KiGPT · 6.8KiGPT · 6.3KiGPT · 8.7KiGPT · 7.7KiGPT · 7.2KiGPT · 6.5K1K10K100K1M10M100MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MiGPT · 2.2KiGPT · 6KiGPT · 5.1KiGPT · 6.8KiGPT · 6.3KiGPT · 8.7KiGPT · 7.7KiGPT · 7.2KiGPT · 6.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
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Free tier
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$20per 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
Serverless LLM API CustomDedicated endpoints / GPUs Custom
Free FreePro $20/moTeam $30/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
AudioVideoTextImages
TextImagesAudio
TextDocuments
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Text
VideoTextImagesAudio
VideoTextImagesAudio
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
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Context engineering
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Email extraction
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Email thread analysis
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Web search
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GPU infrastructure
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Information retrieval
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Web search summaries
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Agents
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Image generation
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LLM comparison
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LLM development
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Model routing
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PDF analysis
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Video generation
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