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Perplexity
Named in 15 of 50 AI answers across 1 category in September 2026. Best position: Web search and scraping APIs for AI, 30% answer share, ranked #10, named first in 0%.
30%
Best share Web search and scraping APIs for AI
What Perplexity is
Perplexity provides APIs for web research, question answering, search, model access and embeddings. It is for people building products and agent applications that need web-grounded information or language-model capabilities.
Its Agent API returns web-grounded answers with built-in citations and can use web search, URL fetching, sandboxes, MCP, finance search and people search. Its Search API returns ranked web results with filtering and real-time data. The Router API offers an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for open-weight models hosted by Perplexity. Its Embeddings API generates embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
By category
First edition
| Category | Rank | Answer share | Named first | Models | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web search and scraping APIs for AIAI infra | #10 of 17 | 0% | Claude Opus 5, Claude, Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Sonar Reasoning Pro | new |
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