Perplexity alternatives

The general-purpose AI assistant that set the category baseline.

freemiumfree tier; Go $8/mo, Plus $20/mo, Pro from $100/mo

Anthropic's assistant — the practitioner's favorite for prose and long documents.

freemiumfree tier; Pro $20/mo ($17/mo billed yearly, $200 up front); Max from $100/mo

AI research assistant that extracts structured data from academic papers.

freemiumfree tier; Plus $11/mo, Pro $39/mo (billed yearly)

Scientific search engine that answers questions with evidence from papers.

freemiumfree tier; Pro $20/mo ($144/yr), Deep $65/mo ($540/yr)

Google's consumer AI assistant — chat, Deep Research, image/video tools, bundled Google AI plans.

freemiumfree with Google Account; AI Plus $4.99/mo; AI Pro $19.99/mo; AI Ultra from $99.99/mo (5x) or $199.99/mo (20x)

xAI's consumer assistant on grok.com — chat, search, Imagine; not the xAI API and not in-X Grok.

freemiumfree tier on grok.com; paid SuperGrok upgrades sold in-app (official public $ card is not a stable HTML page — confirm at checkout)