Perplexity Sonar API vs OpenRouter vs Together AI

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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Together AI
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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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22Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 14.6%
▼ 6.4%
6-month growth
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+39.6%
+1.9%
Global rank web
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#2,023
#60,843
Avg. last 3 months
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19.5M
794.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
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32%
42%
Pages / visit
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7.7
3.2
Visit duration
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6m 13s
1m 57s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
Perplexity Sonar APIOpenRouterTogether AI
05.5M11M16.5M22MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MTogether 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 · 785.1K100K1M10M100MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MTogether 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 · 785.1KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Freemium
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Starting price
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Free tier
$1.99per month
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API access
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Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Serverless Inference $0.30/usage-basedDedicated Inference GPU $3.99/usage-basedGPU Clusters $1.99/usage-basedFine-Tuning $0.34/usage-based
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
AudioImagesTextVideo
CodeTextImagesAudio
Output
Text
AudioImagesTextVideo
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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8
APIs
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