Perplexity Sonar API vs OsirisBrain vs SambaNova Cloud 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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OsirisBrain
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SambaNova Cloud
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iGPT
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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 OsirisBrain
osirisbrain.com
OsirisBrain is a single frontier reasoning model sold through an OpenAI-compatible API.
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Competitor SambaNova Cloud
cloud.sambanova.ai
SambaNova Cloud is an inference service where developers call open-source models through an API that follows the OpenAI chat completions format.
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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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334visits/mo
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6.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 10.7%
6-month growth
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-5.3%
Global rank web
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#2,806,800
Avg. last 3 months
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111
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7.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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40%
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36%
Pages / visit
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1.0
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1.9
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24s
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Perplexity Sonar APIOsirisBrainSambaNova CloudiGPT
02.2K4.3K6.5K8.7KOsirisBrain · 334iGPT · 2.2KiGPT · 6KiGPT · 5.1KiGPT · 6.8KiGPT · 6.3KiGPT · 8.7KiGPT · 7.7KiGPT · 7.2KiGPT · 6.5K1001K10KOsirisBrain · 334iGPT · 2.2KiGPT · 6KiGPT · 5.1KiGPT · 6.8KiGPT · 6.3KiGPT · 8.7KiGPT · 7.7KiGPT · 7.2KiGPT · 6.5KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Freemium
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$5per month · free tier available
Free tier
$20per month · free tier available
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API access
Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Starter $5Pro $20Enterprise Custom
Free Custom/moDeveloper Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePro $20/moTeam $30/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
CodeText
ImagesText
DocumentsText
Output
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CodeText
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DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
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LLM gateway
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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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Information retrieval
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Large language models
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Web search summaries
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API integrations
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Agents
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Development
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Model routing
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PDF analysis
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