Perplexity alternatives 2026: 8 options compared by facts

Services from our AI assistants ranking you can choose instead of Perplexity, by Score. For each one we show the factors where it beats Perplexity.

Perplexity: Our Score 67/100 See the full ranking

  1. 1

    Gemini

    83/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Capabilities, Price, Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Yes
    Context window, tokens
    128,000
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    $4.99
  2. 2

    Mistral Vibe (Le Chat)

    76/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Capabilities, Price, Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Yes
    Context window, tokens
    256,000
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    $14.99
  3. 3

    Grok

    73/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Price, User reputation, Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Yes
    Context window, tokens
    Not verified
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    $8.00
  4. 4

    Claude

    69/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Capabilities, Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Yes
    Context window, tokens
    1,000,000
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    $20.00
  5. 5

    Microsoft Copilot

    69/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Price, Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Yes
    Context window, tokens
    Not verified
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    $9.99
  6. 7

    DeepSeek

    66/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Price, Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Yes
    Context window, tokens
    1,000,000
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    $0.00
  7. 8

    Kimi

    58/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Yes
    Context window, tokens
    Not verified
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    Not verified
  8. 9

    Meta AI

    56/100

    Stronger than Perplexity in: Price, Transparency

    You can stop chats from training the model
    Not verified
    Context window, tokens
    Not verified
    Free plan
    Yes
    Cheapest paid plan, per month
    $7.99