How do Open WebUI and Perplexity compare in monthly traffic?

Open WebUI has 804,534 monthly visits, while Perplexity has 88,310,223. Traffic estimates describe audience size, not product quality.

How do their growth rates compare?

Open WebUI has a month-over-month growth rate of -2.8%; Perplexity has -3.7%.

How does pricing compare?

Open WebUI: Freemium. The core platform is free and open source, installable via pip or Docker with no account required. An enterprise tier with support, compliance and deployment assistance is quoted on contact. Perplexity: Freemium. Offers a permanent Free tier with unlimited Quick Searches, 3 Pro Searches per day, and 1 Deep Research query per month; Perplexity Pro costs $20/month ($200/year) and Perplexity Max costs $200/month ($2,000/year) for individuals. Team plans start at $40/seat/month ($400/seat/year) for Enterprise Pro and $325/seat/month for Enterprise Max, alongside usage-based Sonar API billing.