
Offers deeper conversational reasoning and coding agents, but lacks Perplexity's dedicated inline citation-first search layout.
#1Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Perplexity records 88,310,223 monthly visits with -3.7% growth and Freemium pricing.

Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | perplexity.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 88.31M (88,310,223) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +156.83K (+3.9%) |
| -3.39M (-3.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (25.5%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 63.32M |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.7 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Over one hundred thousand ready-to-run scrapers and automation tools covering social media, maps, e-commerce, real estate, and general web crawling.
Connect Apify Actors directly to AI assistants and agents so they can search the store, run scrapers, and pull structured results as tool calls.
Managed proxy rotation and unblocking are built into the platform, so scrapers keep working when target sites add defenses.
An open-source crawling library plus Python and JavaScript SDKs for building custom Actors with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or Cheerio.
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Executes multi-step iterative web and document research across hundreds of sources, cross-checking facts and generating structured, citation-backed analytical reports that can be exported as PDFs or shared as interactive Perplexity Pages.
Lets Pro and Max subscribers switch dynamically between Perplexity's in-house Sonar models and top external models (including Claude 4, o3-pro, and Gemini) or compare multi-model reasoning outputs side by side.
Provides dedicated project workspaces where users upload local PDFs, spreadsheets, and text files, configure custom assistant instructions, and run queries that combine private document retrieval with live internet search.
Extends Perplexity from passive Q&A into agentic execution, turning high-level user requests into completed workflows, multi-tab browser actions, and automated data synthesis via the Comet ecosystem.

Offers deeper conversational reasoning and coding agents, but lacks Perplexity's dedicated inline citation-first search layout.
#1
Leverages Google's vast search index for real-time answers, but offers a standard chat interface rather than deep research feeds.
#2Provides exceptional analytical depth and writing quality, but does not focus purely on web-sourced search summaries.

Integrates real-time social data search for breaking news, but leans more toward casual chat than structured research.

Delivers agentic multi-source research and page generation, but can feel more cluttered than Perplexity's clean answer engine.

SpecialistOffers a comprehensive free index of academic literature, but lacks conversational chat synthesis for general web queries.


SpecialistFocuses exclusively on peer-reviewed scientific papers for evidence-based answers, unlike Perplexity's broad general web search.


Combines privacy-focused web search with AI summarization, though it requires a paid subscription for full access.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
Free / Open-sourceProvides direct LLM-ready markdown conversion via API, but lacks Apify's massive marketplace of pre-built scraping actors.
SpecialistBuild GTM systems that turn data into revenue
SpecialistAnalyzes scholarly article citations to verify scientific claims, making it superior for academic literature reviews.
Offers deeper conversational reasoning and coding agents, but lacks Perplexity's dedicated inline citation-first search layout.
Leverages Google's vast search index for real-time answers, but offers a standard chat interface rather than deep research feeds.
Provides exceptional analytical depth and writing quality, but does not focus purely on web-sourced search summaries.
Integrates real-time social data search for breaking news, but leans more toward casual chat than structured research.
Delivers agentic multi-source research and page generation, but can feel more cluttered than Perplexity's clean answer engine.
SpecialistOffers a comprehensive free index of academic literature, but lacks conversational chat synthesis for general web queries.
SpecialistFocuses exclusively on peer-reviewed scientific papers for evidence-based answers, unlike Perplexity's broad general web search.
Combines privacy-focused web search with AI summarization, though it requires a paid subscription for full access.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
Free / Open-sourceProvides direct LLM-ready markdown conversion via API, but lacks Apify's massive marketplace of pre-built scraping actors.
SpecialistAnalyzes scholarly article citations to verify scientific claims, making it superior for academic literature reviews.