Perplexity Sonar API vs Tavily vs OsirisBrain vs FastRouter

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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Tavily
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OsirisBrain
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FastRouter
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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 Tavily
tavily.com
Tavily is a real-time search and web access API for AI agents.
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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 FastRouter
fastrouter.ai
This LLM gateway lets teams tap into over 100 AI models through one API endpoint
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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334visits/mo
15.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 62.7%
6-month growth
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+4.7%
Global rank web
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#1,733,591
Avg. last 3 months
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23.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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Pages / visit
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Visit duration
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15s
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● Direct 95% · ● Referral 5%
Perplexity Sonar APITavilyOsirisBrainFastRouter
010.4K20.8K31.2K41.6KOsirisBrain · 334FastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5K1001K10K100KOsirisBrain · 334FastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5KJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
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Starting price
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Free tier
$5per month · free tier available
$199per month · free tier available
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API access
Plans
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Starter $5Pro $20Enterprise Custom
Starter FreePro $199/moBusiness $799/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
TextWeb pages
CodeText
AudioImagesText
Output
Text
Text
CodeText
AudioImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
Developer tools
LLM gateway
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Web search
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Model routing
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Agents
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API integrations
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Webscraping
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Information retrieval
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Searching
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Web scraping
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Web search summaries
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Website crawling
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API management
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Coding
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Development
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LLM development
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Real time web analysis
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Research
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Text extraction
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